![]() If this was indeed Baumgarten's project, we might well ask to be excused from pursuing the subject further. Combining Kant's remark with Leibniz's view that beauty is-or, more precisely, flows from-perfection, we might conclude that Baumgarten simply lowered beauty from the level of distinct to that of confused concepts and tried to deduce its rules from the concept of perfection. In the Critique of Judgment, it is generally assumed to be Baumgarten Kant has in mind when, arguing that judgments of beauty are not cognitive or "logical" judgments, he criticizes the view that beauty is perfection known confusedly or indistinctly. ![]() to bring the critical treatment of the beautiful under rational principles and so to raise its rules to the rank of a science". Aesthetic knowledge involves sensuous perception in and through the body and is inseparable from our direct experience of being in the world. Explaining his own use of "Transcendental Aesthetic" in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant criticizes Baumgarten's "abortive attempt. Baumgarten and the Invention of Aesthetics. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten is considered the father of aesthetics. Most of us are aware that it was Baumgarten who coined the name "aesthetics" for the new philosophical discipline his Aesthetica was intended to establish but as for the content of that work, our acquaintance is likely to be indirect, through two remarks of Kant. ALTHOUGH the content of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Aesthetica seems to be familiar in German philosophical circles, it is relatively unknown outside Germany. ![]()
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