Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (/ˈbaʊmɡɑːrtən/; Jerman: [ˈbaʊmˌgaʁtn̩]; 17 Juli 1714 – 27 Mei 1762 )^[3] adalah seorang filsuf Jerman. Ia adalah saudara dari teolog Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706–1757).

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Lahir	17 Juli 1714 Berlin, Brandenburg
Meninggal	27 Mei 1762(1762-05-27) (umur 47) Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg
Pendidikan	Universitas Halle Universitas Jena (tanpa gelar)
Era	Filsafat abad ke-18
Kawasan	Filsfat Barat
Aliran	Abad Pencerahan
Institusi	Universitas Halle Alma Mater Viadrina
Pembimbing akademik	Christian Wolff Johann Peter Reusch [de]
Mahasiswa penting	Georg Friedrich Meier
Minat utama	Aesthetik
Gagasan penting	Aesthetics as the perfection of sensuous cognition[1][2]
Dipengaruhi Gottfried Leibniz, Christian Wolff
Memengaruhi Immanuel Kant, Georg Friedrich Meier, Johann Georg Sulzer, Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Catatan

1. Alexander Baumgarten, Aesthetica, 1750, §1: "Aesthetices finis est perfectio cognitionis sensitivae".
2. Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 622.
3. Jan Lekschas, The Baumgarten Family Diarsipkan 2019-01-24 di Wayback Machine.

Referensi

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press.

Bacaan tambahan

• Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Chapter 3 contains a partial translation of the 'Metaphysics').

Pranala luar

• Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics 2018 Courtney D. Fugate (Editor), John Hymers (Editor)
• Jan Lekschas, The Baumgarten Family (in German)
• Alexander Gottilieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) (in German)