Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
Lahir	17 Juli 1714; Berlin, Brandenburg
Meninggal	27 Mei 1762 (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
	Dipengaruhi Gottfried Leibniz, Christian Wolff;
	Memengaruhi Immanuel Kant, Georg Friedrich Meier, Johann Georg Sulzer, Johann Joachim Winckelmann;

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).

Catatan

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

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

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').