virus: 'aesthetics'

From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom (eva-lise@efn.org)
Date: Fri Dec 27 1996 - 00:35:30 MST


On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Ken Pantheists wrote:

> You have mistakingly translated the word aesthetic to mean "beauty".
>
> Aesthetic means "about life".
>

No, Stephen, it doesn't. As I have posted before in response to this same
statement, 'aesthetic' comes from the Greek word for 'sense' or
'perception', 'aisthetikos'. Greek for 'life' is 'bios', as in 'biology'.

Eva



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