In the history of thought, Jean-Louis de Lolme is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Jean-Louis de Lolme as Genevan and English political theorist and writer on constitutional matters.
Jean-Louis de Lolme was born at Geneva in 1741. His recorded nationality is Republic of Geneva.
Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from Republic of Geneva matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-Louis de Lolme died in 1806, aged 65. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
