definition of mimesis by aristotle
Aristotle views mimesis as something that nature and humans have in common-that is not only embedded in the creative process, but also in the constitution of the human species. In 17th and early 18th century conceptions of aesthetics, mimesis is bound to the imitation of (empirical and idealized) nature.erhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role. --- Walter Benjamin, On the Mimetic Faculty 1933. The term mimesis is derived from the Greek mimesis, meaning to imitate [1].