Baumgarten’s starting point is that ideas are the result of the epistemic power of our soul, and they are therefore crucial in any understanding of the character of knowledge in general. Baumgarten’s theory of aesthetics is founded on Leibniz’s system of the monads, which are distinguished by the different clarity of their ideas.
The periods prior to the publication of Aesthetica are covered by four texts in which the author discovers and defines the basic thoughts of “the new science of aesthetics”. We are not concerned here so much with his key, though fragmentary, work Aesthetica, rather we seek to map the writings that led up to that work and which formed it. This article is the result of the author’s inquiry into the work of the eighteenth century German philosopher and aestheticist Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.
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