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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten | |
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| Born | 17 July 1714 |
| Died | 27 May 1762 (aged 47) |
| Education | University of Halle University of Jena (no degree) |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Age of Enlightenment |
| Institutions | University of Halle Alma Mater Viadrina |
| Academic advisors | Christian Wolff Johann Peter Reusch |
| Notable students | Georg Friedrich Meier |
Main interests | Aesthetics |
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).
- ^ Alexander Baumgarten, Aesthetica, 1750, §1: "Aesthetices finis est perfectio cognitionis sensitivae".
- ^ Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 622.
- ^ Jan Lekschas, The Baumgarten Family Archived 2019-01-24 at the Wayback Machine