Georg Friedrich Meier
Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718, Ammendorf near Halle – 21 June 1777, Giebichenstein) was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Meier reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.[1]
Meier studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle, where he was a pupil of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Meier succeeded Baumgarten as extraordinary professor, and became a full professor at Halle in 1748.[2]
Works
- Gedancken von Schertzen, 1744
- Anfangsgründe aller schönen Künste und Wissenschaften, 1748–50
- Metaphysik, vol. 1 (1755), vol. 2 (1756), vol. 3 (1757), vol. 4 (1759)
- Vernunftlehre, 1752
- Versuch einer allgemeinen Auslegungskunst, 1757
References
- ^ Thiel, Udo (2006), "Meier, Georg Friedrich", in Haakonssen, Knud, The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1202–3
- ^ "Meier, Georg Friedrich", Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference USA
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