Georg Friedrich Meier

Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718 – 21 June 1777) was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, he reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.[2]

Georg Friedrich Meier
Born(1718-03-26)26 March 1718
Ammendorf
Died21 June 1777(1777-06-21) (aged 59)
Giebichenstein
EducationUniversity of Halle
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAge of Enlightenment
InstitutionsUniversity of Halle
Academic advisorsA. G. Baumgarten
Main interests
Aesthetics

Career

Meier studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle, where he was a pupil of Baumgarten. Meier succeeded Baumgarten as extraordinary professor, and became a full professor at Halle in 1748.[3]

Works
  • Gedancken von Schertzen, Halle 1744.
  • Anfangsgründe aller schönen Künste und Wissenschaften, Halle 1748–50 (3 vols.).
  • Vernunftlehre, Halle 1752.
  • Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre, Halle 1752 (reprinted in Kant's gesammelte Schriften Akademie Ausgabe, XVI, pp. 1–872 with the annotations by Kant).
  • Metaphysik, Halle: vol. 1 (1755), vol. 2 (1756), vol. 3 (1757), vol. 4 (1759).
  • Versuch einer allgemeinen Auslegungskunst, Halle 1757.
  • Philosophische Sittenlehre Halle 1753-1761 (5 vols.).
  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Leben, Halle 1763.
  • Beyträge zu der Lehre von den Vorurtheilen, Halle 1766.
  • Betrachtungen über die Schranken der menschlichen Erkenntniss', Halle 1775.

References
  1. Gary Banham, Dennis Schulting, Nigel Hems (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Kant, Continuum, 2012, p. 136.
  2. Thiel, Udo (2006), "Meier, Georg Friedrich", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1202–3
  3. "Meier, Georg Friedrich", Encyclopedia of Philosophy online.

Further reading
  • Makkreel, Rudolf, The Confluence of Aesthetics and Hermeneutics in Baumgarten, Meier, and Kant, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54(1) (1996): 65–75.
  • Riccardo Pozzo, Georg Friedrich Meiers „Vernunftlehre“. Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2000. ISBN 3-7728-2023-9
  • Günter Schenk, Leben und Werk des halleschen Aufklärers Georg Friedrich Meier, Halle/Saale 1994. ISBN 3-929887-01-0.


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