Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten lived from 1714 to 1762 and was a German philosopher credited with establishing aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. He appropriated the term aesthetics, which had previously meant sensation, to refer to taste and the sense of beauty, creating its modern philosophical usage, and he developed aesthetics as the study of good and bad taste in art.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining MomentSourced to the subject's own accountHe established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline. 1 Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Notable PublicationSourced to the subject's own account Office HeldSourced to the subject's own accountProfessor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt (Oder) 1 Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBerlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg 1 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountFrankfurt an der Oder, Margraviate of Brandenburg 1 TraditionSourced to the subject's own accountRationalism (Age of Enlightenment) 1 Connections
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Baumgarten established aesthetics as a distinct philosophical discipline in the 18th century (Aesthetica, 1750/58).
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He established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline.
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birth_place = Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg
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death_place = Frankfurt an der Oder, Margraviate of Brandenburg
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school_tradition = Age of Enlightenment, Rationalism
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Aesthetica, 1750, section 1
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institutions = University of Halle, University of Frankfurt (Oder)
Traditions Founded: Aesthetics, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Wikipedia, lead section
He established aesthetics as a philosophical discipline.
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