See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB See also:

• ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB BAUMGARTEN (1714-1762)
• BAUMGARTEN, MICHAEL (1812-1889)

BAUMGARTEN (1714-1762)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin . ' He studied at See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle, and became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at Halle and at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort on the See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

Oder, where he died in 1762 . He was a See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple of See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz and See also:

• WOLFF (less correctly WOLF), CHRISTIAN (1679-1754)
• WOLFF, CASPAR FRIEDRICH (1733-1794)
• WOLFF, JOSEPH (1795–1862)

Wolff, and was particularly distinguished as having been the first to establish the Theory of the Beautiful as an See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . See also:

• BAUMGARTEN, ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB (1714-1762)
• BAUMGARTEN, MICHAEL (1812-1889)

Baumgarten did See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good service in severing See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics (q.v.) from the other philosophic disciplines, and in marking out a definite See also:

• OBJECT

object for its researches . The very name (Aesthetics), which Baumgarten was the first to use, indicates the imperfect and partial nature of his See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis, pointing as it doesto an See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element so variable as feeling or sensation as the ultimate ground of See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment in questions pertaining to beauty . It is important to See also:

• NOTICE

notice that Baumgarten's first See also:

• WORK

work preceded those of See also:

• BURKE
• BURKE, ROBERT
• BURKE, SIR JOHN BERNARD (1814–1892)
• BURKE, WILLIAM (1792–1829)

Burke, See also:

• DIDEROT, DENIS (1713-1784)

Diderot, and P . See also:

• ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)

Andre, and that See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant had a See also:

• GREAT

great admiration for him . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works of Baumgarten are the following: Disputationes de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus (1735); Aesthetica; Metaphysica (1739; 7th ed . 1779); Ethica See also:

• PHILO
• PHILO, HERENNIUS

philo sophica (1751, 2nd ed . 1763); Initia philosophiae practicae primae (176o) . After his See also:

• DEATH

death, his pupils published a Philosophia Generalis (1770) and a See also:

• JUS

Jus Naturae (1765), which he had See also:

• LEFT

left in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript . See Mcer, Baumgarten's Leben (1763); Abbt, Baumgarten's Leben and Charakter (1765) ; H .

G . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer, Leibnitz and Baumgarten (1874) ; J .