Georg Friedrich Meier

Georg Friedrich Meier
Born(1718-03-26)26 March 1718
Died21 June 1777(1777-06-21) (aged 59)
EducationUniversity of Halle
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAge of Enlightenment
InstitutionsUniversity of Halle
Academic advisorsA. G. Baumgarten
Main interests
Aesthetics
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Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718 – 21 June 1777) was a German philosopher and aesthetician.[2] A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, he reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.[3]

  1. ^ Gary Banham, Dennis Schulting, Nigel Hems (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Kant, Continuum, 2012, p. 136.
  2. ^ Rydberg, Andreas (2023). "Tempering the Marital Mind: Civic Regimens of Love and Marriage in German Mid-Eighteenth-Century Moral Weeklies". Modern Intellectual History. doi:10.1017/S1479244323000185. ISSN 1479-2443.
  3. ^ Thiel, Udo (2006), "Meier, Georg Friedrich", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1202–3.

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