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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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- 18th Century British Aesthetics
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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Notable ideas. Aesthetics as the perfection of sensuous cognition [1] [2] Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ( / ˈbaʊmɡɑːrtən /; German: [ˈbaʊmˌgaʁtn̩]; 17 July 1714 – 27 May [3] 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a brother to theologian Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757).
The first use of the term aesthetics in something like its modern sense is commonly attributed to Alexander Baumgarten in 1735, although earlier studies in the 18th century by writers such as the third Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper), Joseph Addison, Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, and Francis Hutcheson mark the first systematic inquiries ...
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), a professor first in Halle and then in Frankfurt/Oder, is credited with coining the term “aesthetics” as the philosophy (or science) of art and beauty. Writing in the philosophical tradition of Christian Wolff, Baumgarten defends the philosophical treatment of the “lower” faculties of the senses.
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) is the first philosopher to employ the term “aesthetics” in a distinctly philosophical context. Baumgarten considered aesthetics as a particular kind of knowledge by means of sensitivity. At the beginning of his Aesthetics (1750–1758) Baumgarten gives a definition of the term.
When Baumgarten first mentioned a possible science of aesthetics, he specified that it would deal with perceptual objects, oaaOrjT?c, as distinguished from rational objects, vorjr?, and noted that aioQy\ra are legitimate objects of a science because the science of psychology provides the basis for a normative treatment of them (Meditations?115 ...
