ABSTRACT
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "aesthetic" derives from the Greek word meaning "through the senses". The etymology reveals the contiguity between sensation and feeling, of sensory experience and sensibility. The education of aesthetic intelligence is therefore concerned with the development of sensation and feeling into what is commonly called sensibility. The aesthetic denotes a mode of response inherent in human life which operates through the senses and the feelings and constitutes a form of intelligence comparable to, though different from, other forms of intelligence, such as the mode of logical deduction. In The Ideology of the AestheticTerry Eagleton claims that his own definition of the word merges into the idea of bodily experience as such. The various arts comprise the differentiated symbolic forms of the aesthetic modality. Through aesthetic intelligence we are able to apprehend a realm of meaning and value essential to any full concept of human existence.
