Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

By Paul Guyer | Jan 1, 2008

(1714 –1762 ), German philosopher who was influential as the author of the textbooks on metaphysics and ethics on which Immanuel Kant lectured. Baumgarten's significance for aesthetics lies not only in his coinage of the term aesthetics for the philosophy of art but also in his creation of a paradigm for understanding art that was profoundly influential in his own time and has continued to be so, although indirectly, down to the present.

Born in Berlin and educated in the Pietist orphanage and university of Halle, Baumgarten studied the philosophy of Christian Wolff after the banishment ... // 93% Remaining

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