Abstract
The birth of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline was the attempt to include beauty,
art and sensibility, i. e. the individual in philosophy. Hence the problem of individual is
essential for Wolffian aesthetics. As it is well known, Baumgarten asserts that proper
names are highly poetic. However, it is not yet revealed how they would bring a poetic
effect. In this paper, I provide an explanation by “emphasis” and “mathematic infinity”
of notes in an individual, basing on Meier. I argue that “complete determinations” or
enormous notes of an individual are represented as implications of a proper name,
and that, no matter how numerous notes are not recognized, a proper name could
bring beauty through the high potentiality of notes, which indicates inexhaustibility
of the individual. This conclusion suggests that Meier takes the limitations of human
recognition positive in aesthetics, and that’s why he found significance in the new
discipline and endeavored to promote it.
