Ji Kang’s 嵇康 argument against the presence of emotions in music in “Sound Has Neither Sorrow nor Joy” (sheng wu ai le lun 聲無哀 樂論) relies centrally on his claim that harmonious sounds are “without image” (wu xiang 無象). In contrast, the Ru 儒(Confucian) view of music is that it transmits images and emotions between musicians and listeners, which provides the basis for the musical cultivation of virtue (de 德). In this paper, I provide a reading of Ji Kang’s argument that elucidates key differences between music with and without images, and offer an analysis of these differences in terms of intransitive musical meaning.

中文翻译：

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有和没有图像的音乐

嵇康在《无声哀乐论》中反对音乐中存在情感的嵇康论点主要依赖于他的主张，即和谐的声音是“没有形象的”。象）。儒家的音乐观则相反，它在音乐家和听众之间传递意象和情感，为音乐修养提供了基础。在本文中，我阅读了嵇康的论点，阐明了有图像和没有图像的音乐之间的关键差异，并从不及物音乐意义的角度分析了这些差异。