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In group places a philosopher inside the wider circle of thinkers they are counted among. Wikipedia calls Kant "one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment," a group defined more by a shared intellectual moment than by any single shared doctrine. This dimension gathers philosophers who belong to the same named group.

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Era of Emergence
18 1
Cultural Origin Tradition
German 1
In Group
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Aesthetics
Wikipedia
  • Aesthetics, 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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