The Standpoint and View of “Insiders”: A Point of Fusion of Environmental Aesthetics and Landscape Aesthetics

Since Hepburn initiated a reflection on the philosophy of art and advocated the aesthetics of nature, the study on aesthetics has begun to innovate. Environmental aesthetics asserts that environment is the aesthetic object, and everything in environment has aesthetic relevance. A man, as the aesthetic subject, belongs to an environment without exception, so he has aesthetic experience only in the environment. Landscape aesthetics regards the aesthetic objects as a complex of nature, artifacts and arts, and thinks that the aesthetics is an experience to the meanings of landscape for existence in the view of insiders. Through an analysis of the " environment” and " landscape” as aesthetic objects and their relationship with the aesthetic subject, it is concluded that both environmental aesthetics and landscape aesthetics have expanded the scope of aesthetic objects after Hepburn, and uphold an aesthetic standpoint of being intrinsic to the object, which gives them a basic foothold of convergence and integration.