美学可能以公开的和某种扩散的或者隐匿的形式存在。但在论述美学的一般问题时,必须借助理论美学的传统、组成某种体系和借助某种方法获得的科学知识的美学。所形成的系统的科学知识,在一定的程度上是现代美学的范围。现代美学理论的另一个特点是其与方法论以及哲学概念、本体论、认识论、价值说的前提的联系密 Aesthetics may exist in a public and some diffused or hidden form. However, when discussing the general problems of aesthetics, we must make use of the tradition of theoretical aesthetics and compose a certain system and acquire the aesthetics of scientific knowledge through some method. The system of scientific knowledge formed, to a certain extent, is the scope of modern aesthetics. Another characteristic of the modern theory of aesthetics is its close connection with methodology and philosophical concepts, ontology, epistemology, and value propositions