今道友信作为日本现代重要的美学家之一，提出了形而上学的美学体系。其美学思想以超越性为核心概念，以人的精神的复归为最终目的，兼具对终极意义的追问和对现世的关怀。本文通过对今道友信关于什么是美的思想的阐述，最终落脚到美的现代价值。而对于美的理解，必须掌握作为美的核心精神的爱的含义以及作为研究美的线索的艺术的内涵。通过艺术这个线索理解以爱为核心精神的美的含义，最终指向美的现代价值，是理解今道友信美学思想的内在逻辑。

Imamichi Tomonobu as one of the most important Japanese aesthetes, putting forward the system of metaphysical aesthetics. His aesthetic thought which regards transcendence as the core concept, in order to make the human spirit come back, with the ask of ultimate meaning and the care of secular life. This article finds themself to the value and function of beauty through Imamichi Tomonobu’s concept of beauty. For the understanding of beauty, we must master the meaning of love, which is as the core spirit of beauty, and art, which is as the research clue of beauty connotation. Basing on the concept of art to understand the beauty which takes the love as its core spirit and then ends to the function of beauty, is the inherent logic to understand Imamichi Tomonobu’s aesthetic thought.