蒋孔阳是较早把“比较”运用于美学研究的一位学者。他的中西美学思想比较力求从整体上把握与比较中西的艺术和美学、克服片面性。文章进而归纳了蒋孔阳中西比较研究中四组重要范畴 ,它们是 :和谐与和、真与诚、自由与自然、形似与神似 Jiang Kongyang was one of the earliest scholars who applied “comparison” to aesthetics research. His comparative thinking of Chinese and Western aesthetics tries to grasp and compare the arts and aesthetics of both China and the West and overcome the one-sidedness. The article then summarizes the four major categories of Jiang Kongyang’s comparative study between China and the West. They are: harmony and harmony, truth and sincerity, freedom and nature, similarity and similarity