约瑟夫·艾迪生美学思想的独特性表现在他对审美想像的论述上 :想像快感不同于感官快感和悟性快感 ,它可分为初级想像快感和次级想像快感 ,均来自视觉对象 ,这种对象由“伟大、新奇和美”组成。艾迪生对想像的研究比同时代的美学家更深刻。文章还勾勒了想像这一概念在西方美学史上的流变 The uniqueness of Joseph Addison’s aesthetic thoughts is reflected in his exposition of aesthetic imagination: the pleasure of imagination is different from the pleasure of sensual pleasure and perception, which can be divided into primary imagination pleasure and secondary imagination pleasure, all come from the visual object, By “great, novelty and beauty”. Addison’s study of imagination is more profound than contemporary aestheticists. The article also outlines the evolution of the concept of imagination in the history of Western aesthetics