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See also:BAUMGARTEN, See also:ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB (1714-1762) , See also:German philosopher, See also:born at See also:Berlin. ' He studied at See also:Halle, and became See also:professor of See also:philosophy at Halle and at See also:Frankfort on the See also:Oder, where he died in 1762. He was a See also:disciple of See also:Leibnitz and See also:Wolff, and was particularly distinguished as having been the first to establish the Theory of the Beautiful as an See also:independent See also:science. Baumgarten did See also:good service in severing See also:aesthetics (q.v.) from the other philosophic disciplines, and in marking out a definite See also:object for its researches. The very name (Aesthetics), which Baumgarten was the first to use, indicates the imperfect and partial nature of his See also:analysis, pointing as it doesto an See also:element so variable as feeling or sensation as the ultimate ground of See also:judgment in questions pertaining to beauty. It is important
to See also:notice that Baumgarten's first See also:work preceded those of See also:Burke, See also:Diderot, and P. See also:Andre, and that See also:Kant had a See also:great admiration for him. The See also:principal See also:works of Baumgarten are the following: Disputationes de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus (1735); Aesthetica; Metaphysica (1739; 7th ed. 1779); Ethica See also:philo sophica (1751, 2nd ed. 1763); Initia philosophiae practicae primae (176o). After his See also:death, his pupils published a Philosophia Generalis (1770) and a See also:Jus Naturae (1765), which he had See also:left in See also:manuscript.
See Mcer, Baumgarten's Leben (1763); Abbt, Baumgarten's Leben and Charakter (1765) ; H.
G. See also:Meyer, Leibnitz and Baumgarten (1874) ; J.
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