Antedating of "Aesthetic"

[Fred Shapiro]

aesthetic (OED 1798)

1797 tr. Kant _The Principles of Critical Philosophy_ 73 (Eighteenth
Century Collections Online)  The transcendental philosophy of the critic
is divided into two enquiries, into the transcendental aesthetic and the
transcendental logic.

Fred Shapiro


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