Alexander GottliebBaumgarten (17. července 1714 v Berlíně – 27. května 1762 ve Frankfurtu nad Odrou) byl německý filozof, jehož osvícenská filozofie byla pod vlivem Leibnizovsko-Wolffovského systému.
Alexander GottliebBaumgarten was a German philosopher and educator who coined the term aesthetics and established this discipline as a distinct field of philosophical inquiry. As a student at Halle, Baumgarten was strongly influenced by…
Baumgarten, though he did not renounce the Pietistic doctrine, began the process which Semler completed. His works include Evangelische Glaubenslehre (1759); Auszug der Kirchengeschichte (1743–1762); Primae lineae breviarii antiquitatum…
Baumgarten resisted the idea that our mental life was best described in logical terms, and insisted that certain features of our perception (most clearly manifested in our perceptions of artwork) required a somewhat different philosophical…
AlexanderBaumgarten (1714-1762) was among the first to teach the controversial philosophy of Christian Wolff (1679-1754). By order of the king, he moved to Frankfurt on the Oder in 1739, where he remained until his death in 1762.