Full Idea
Baumgarten founded aesthetics in the year 1750.
Gist of Idea
Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750
Source
report of Alexander Baumgarten (Aesthetica [1739]) by Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? Ch.2
Book Reference
Tolstoy,Leo: 'What is Art? and Essays on Art', ed/tr. Maude,A [OUP 1975], p.86
A Reaction
He gave it a label, separated it off from the rest of philosophy, and made taste the main focus. The philosophy of art goes back to at least Plato's 'Republic' and 'Symposium'.