Alexander Baumgarten (1714-1762), an influential German philosopher preceding Immanuel Kant, is remembered mainly as a founder of modern aesthetics. Yet his manual on metaphysics was one of the chief textbooks of philosophical instruction in latter 18th-Century Germany. Originally published in Latin[...]
Now available for the first time in English, this critical translation of Metaphysica draws from the original seven Latin editions, the Academy edition of Kant, and Georg Friedrich Meier's 18th-century German translation. To assist and support the reading of this crucial text, the translation featur[...]
Die Philosophie Alexander Gottlieb Baumgartens (1714-1762) sowie ihre Bedeutung fur die Philosophie- und Geistesgeschichte ist noch weitgehend unerforscht. Das gilt insbesondere fur seine 1739 erstmals erschienene Metaphysica, die zwar sein erfolgreichstes Werk war, aber aufgrund des sperrigen Latei[...]