Frithjof Schuon belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Frithjof Schuon as Swiss philosopher, poet and painter (1907-1998).
Frithjof Schuon was born at Basel in 1907. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
The recorded fields of work are spirituality.
Among his principal works are The Transcendent Unity of Religions, Logic and Transcendence and Understanding Islam. Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Frithjof Schuon died in 1998, aged 91. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Transcendent Unity of Religions
- Notable work: Logic and Transcendence
- Notable work: Understanding Islam
- Notable work: Form and Substance in Religions
- Fields: spirituality
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