Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin as French philosopher.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin was born at Amboise in 1743. His recorded nationality is France.
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 philosophy and translating activity.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin died in 1803, aged 60. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: philosophy and translating activity
