Foreign thinker
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Alexander Gottlieb BaumgartenAestheticsGerman
Life and Thought
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was an 18th-century German philosopher and the founder of aesthetics as an independent discipline within philosophy. By defining aesthetics as the "science of sensory cognition," he distinguished this field from logic and metaphysics, exerting a significant influence on Kant and subsequent philosophy.
