![]() ![]() ![]() Hence they can never serve as determinate a priori laws to which our judgment of taste must conform. For, as far as their principal sources are concerned, those supposed rules or criteria are merely empirical. He hoped to bring our critical judging of the beautiful under rational principles, and to raise the rules for such judging to the level of a lawful science. They are doing so on the basis of a false hope conceived by that superb analyst Baumgarten. The Germans are the only people who presently (1781) have come to use the word aesthetic to designate what others call the critique of taste. In 1781, Kant declared that Baumgarten's aesthetics could never contain objective rules, laws, or principles of natural or artistic beauty. ![]() Aesthetica (1750-58) is a work by German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. ![]()
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