Philosopher

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Overview

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (; German: [ˈbaʊmˌgaʁtn̩]; 17 July 1714 – 27 May 1762) was a German philosopher. He established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline.

He was the brother of the theologian Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757).

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Philosophers who discussed Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Immanuel Kant
• Georg Friedrich Meier

Ideas Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten discusses

• Frederick Copleston
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Latin
• Leo Tolstoy
• Aesthetic taste
• Christian Wolff (philosopher)
• Aesthetics
• Poetry
• Berlin
• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Critique of Pure Reason
• University of Jena
• Martin Heidegger
• Critique of Judgment
• Art
• A History of Philosophy (Copleston)
• Georg Friedrich Meier

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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