Johannes van Vloten belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Johannes van Vloten as Dutch philosopher, university professor and author (1818–1883).
Johannes van Vloten was born at Kampen in 1818. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Johannes van Vloten died in 1883, aged 65. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
