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   Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (/ ˈ b aʊ m ɡ ɑːr t ən /; German: [ˈbaʊmˌgaʁtn̩]; 17 July 1714 – 27 May 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a brother to theologian Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757).

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   May 22, 2024 · Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (born July 17, 1714, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died May 26, 1762, Frankfurt an der Oder) was a German philosopher and educator who coined the term aesthetics and established this discipline as a distinct field of philosophical inquiry.

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   Jan 16, 2007 · The philosophical discipline of aesthetics did not receive its name until 1735, when the twenty-one year old Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten introduced it in his Halle master’s thesis to mean epistêmê aisthetikê, or the science of what is sensed and imagined (Baumgarten, Meditationes §CXVI, pp. 86–7).

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   Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term aesthetics its modern meaning.

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   Learn about the philosopher who coined the term "aesthetics" and defended the study of sensorial cognition and beauty. Read his arguments for the theoretical and practical applications of aesthetics in various fields and disciplines.

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   May 26, 2024 · A brief overview of the German aesthetician who coined the term 'aesthetics' and wrote on the nature and role of beauty and sensation. Learn about his life, works, and influence on Kant and Wolff.

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   Who is Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (born July 17, 1714, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died May 26, 1762, Frankfurt an der Oder) was a German philosopher and educator who coined the term aesthetics and established this discipline as a distinct field of philosophical inquiry.

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   What did Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten say about aesthetics?

   • Baumgarten and Meier: Aesthetics as the Analogue of Rational Cognition Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), as previously mentioned, introduced the term “aesthetics” in his 1735 thesis Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus (“Philosophical meditations pertaining to some matters concerning poetry”).

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   Who was Alexander Gottlieb?

   • From: Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy » Subjects: Philosophy (1714–62)German aesthetician. Baumgarten was born in Berlin and educated at Halle, where he became professor before moving in 1740 to a chair at Frankfurt. He taught a modified Leibnizian system, very much in the spirit of Wolff.

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   Who were Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and Georg Friedrich Meier?

   • So let us now turn to the innovations of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten and his disciple and ally, Georg Friedrich Meier. Meier actually responded directly to Gottsched in a number of polemics, but since his views were based largely—although not entirely—on Baumgarten’s, it will be better to treat them together than to treat Meier now. 3.

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   Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, the German Wolffian philosopher and aesthetician, was born in Berlin. He was the son of an assistant to the Pietist theologian and pedagogue August Hermann Francke; his brother was the famous divine and church historian Sigmund Jakob.