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en-wikipedia-org-4380		Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2270	312	60	Baumgarten developed aesthetics to mean the study of good and bad "taste", thus good and bad art, linking good taste with beauty. Baumgarten appropriated the word aesthetics, which had always meant "sensation", to mean taste or "sense" of beauty. In 1781, Kant declared that Baumgarten's aesthetics could never contain objective rules, laws, or principles of natural or artistic beauty. Nine years later, in his Critique of Judgment, Kant conformed to Baumgarten's new usage and employed the word aesthetic to mean the judgment of taste or the estimation of the beautiful. In 1897, Leo Tolstoy, in his What is Art?, criticized Baumgarten's book on aesthetics. Whatever the limitations of Baumgarten's theory of aesthetics, Frederick Copleston credits him with playing a formative role in German aesthetics, extending Christian Wolff's philosophy to topics that Wolff did not consider, and demonstrating the existence of a legitimate topic for philosophical analysis that could not be reduced to abstract logical analysis.[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4380.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4380.txt