James Joyce expressed his aesthetic thoughts in dramatic from the mouth of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .Many scholars claimed that Joyce ’ s aesthetic thoughts were influ-enced by western classical philosophers like Aristotle , Thomas Aquinas and Vico successively .It should be pointed out that Joyce not only learned a lot from the western philosophers but also accepted the latest achieve -ment of 20 th century western modern philosophies .Through mutual interpreting both Bergson ’ s intuitionism and Joyce ’ s ...
