Johann Georg Sulzer wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Johann Georg Sulzer as German philosopher (1720 - 1779).
Johann Georg Sulzer was born at Winterthur in 1720. His recorded nationality is Russia.
Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.
The recorded fields of work are pedagogy, theology and mathematics.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from Russia matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Johann Georg Sulzer died in 1779, aged 59. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: pedagogy, theology and mathematics
