Abstract
The article dwells further on the topic of Chinese philosophy and Confucian thought’s reception in the West in the era of the Enlightenment, repeatedly studied by the author, and problematizes the points of contact between the British followers of deism and Confucian thought. The article considers the ideas and some works of English deists, drawing inspiration from the ideas of the French Enlightenment, which actively appropriated the Chinese political experience in its presentation by Jesuit missionaries and travelers to China. The author makes an attempt to connect the natural-philosophical ideas of deists, who saw Confucian literati as their philosophical brothers in relation to religion and questions of creation, with the subsequent development of interest in Far Eastern influences on English culture and art, considering the case of the watercolor artist Alexander Cozens and the decisive turn of English park construction from the regular classicist norm of French parks to romantic English landscaped palace and park ensembles. The author comes to the conclusion that English parks and watercolors in some way turned into a visual expression of the ideas of deists, who called for observing and learning from nature and real life, while the landscape gardening ensembles themselves proved to be a reflection of the intellectual landscape.
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