{"id":76641,"date":"2021-07-01T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=76641"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T22:16:23","slug":"the-term-aesthetic-was-coined-by_________","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/the-term-aesthetic-was-coined-by_________\/","title":{"rendered":"The term Aesthetic was coined by_________?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A. Alexander Baumgarten<\/strong><br \/>\nB. Thomas Carlyle<br \/>\nC. Oscar Wilde<br \/>\nD. Walter Peter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;aesthetics&#8221; was\u00a0<a title=\"Appropriation (art)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appropriation_(art)\">appropriated<\/a>\u00a0and coined with new meaning by the German philosopher\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Alexander Baumgarten\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Baumgarten\">Alexander Baumgarten<\/a>\u00a0in his dissertation\u00a0<i>Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus<\/i>\u00a0(&#8220;Philosophical considerations of some matters pertaining the poem&#8221;) in 1735;<sup id=\"cite_ref-Guyer_2005_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Baumgarten chose &#8220;aesthetics&#8221; because he wished to emphasize the experience of art as a means of knowing. Baumgarten&#8217;s definition of aesthetics in the fragment\u00a0<i>Aesthetica<\/i> (1750) is occasionally considered the first definition of modern aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Alexander Baumgarten B. Thomas Carlyle C. Oscar Wilde D. Walter Peter Explanation: The term &#8220;aesthetics&#8221; was\u00a0appropriated\u00a0and coined with new meaning by the German philosopher\u00a0Alexander Baumgarten\u00a0in his dissertation\u00a0Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus\u00a0(&#8220;Philosophical considerations of some matters pertaining the poem&#8221;) in 1735;\u00a0Baumgarten chose &#8220;aesthetics&#8221; because he wished to emphasize the experience of art as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-general-knowledge","9":"category-general-knowledge-mcqs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}