Aesthetics as a Philosophical Science: Rethinking of the Baumgarten’s Ideas

Abstract

The author, given the insufficient coverage of the significance of A. G. Baumgarten in Russian literature, which acquired the status of a secondary philosopher in the great history of philosophical thought, sought to emphasize the anthropological significance of the work of the philosopher as the founder of the science of aesthetics. To this end, the author cites the words of the somaesthetics R. Shusterman about the significance of the Baumgarten theory of sensory knowledge, refers to the axiological vision of the aesthetic foundations of