aesthetic的词源
英文词源
- aesthetic
- aesthetic: [18] In strict etymological terms, aesthetic relates to perception via the senses. It comes ultimately from the Greek verb aísthesthai ‘perceive’ (which is related to Latin audīre ‘hear’), and this meaning is preserved in anaesthetic, literally ‘without feeling’. The derived adjective aisthētikós reached Western Europe via modern Latin aesthēticus, and was first used (in its Germanized form ästhetisch) in the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804).
Here, it retained its original sense, ‘perceptual’, but its use by A T Baumgarten as the title (Æsthetica) of a work on the theory of beauty in art (1750) soon led to its adoption in its now generally accepted meaning.
=> audible, audition - aesthetic (n.)
- 1798, from German Ästhetisch or French esthétique, both from Greek aisthetikos "sensitive, perceptive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive (by the senses or by the mind), to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from root *au- "to perceive" (see audience).
Popularized in English by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Alexander Baumgarten had taken it in German to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in English c. 1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. As an adjective by 1803. Related: Aesthetically.
中文词源
发音释义：[ɛs'θɛtɪk] adj. 美的；美学的；审美的，具有审美趣味的
词源解释：aesthetic←希腊语aisthetikos（感知、感觉）
背景知识：单词aesthetic的含义本来与其希腊语词源相同，后来由于“美学之父”鲍姆嘉通的影响，含义才转变为“美学的”、“审美的”。鲍姆嘉通把美学规定为研究人感性认识的学科。他认为人的心理活动分知、情、意三方面。研究知或人的理性认识有逻辑学，研究人的意志有伦理学，而研究人的情感即相当于人感性认识的学科，鲍姆嘉通将其称为“aesthetics”，因为它的研究对象是aesthetic（感知、感觉），后来翻译成汉语就成了“美学”。随着美学的发展，aesthetic变成了美学中的专用名词，原有的词义反而被人遗忘了，只有在含有它的其他词语如anaesthetic（麻醉的）中才能发现它的初始含义。
同源词：esthetic（美学的），aesthetics（美学），aesthete（唯美主义者、美学家），aestheticism（唯美主义），anaesthetic（麻醉的）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：aesthetic 词源，aesthetic 含义。
来源于希腊语aisthesthai(感知)和aisthetikos,经现代拉丁语aestheticus进入西欧,很快演变为现在的意义。
