Philosophers principally known for theories of beauty, art, taste and aesthetic judgment. Belongs here: philosophers whose central legacy is an account of the aesthetic or of art's role in human life. Does not belong here: philosophers whose aesthetic remarks are incidental to a primarily ethical or metaphysical system, grouped under Ethics or Metaphysics.
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1. Wikipedia: Aesthetics
WikipediaAesthetics, lead section, emergence sentence
Aesthetic thought has its roots in antiquity but only emerged as a distinct field of inquiry in the 18th century when philosophers systematically engaged with the subject.
Aesthetics, lead section, Baumgarten term-coining sentence
The Latin term aesthetica was coined by the philosopher Alexander Baumgarten in 1735
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