Sulzer, John Georg

John Georg Sulzer ( German: Johann Georg Sulzer ; October 16, 1720 , Winterthur - February 27, 1779 , Berlin ) is a German aesthetic philosopher .

Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer
Birth name	Johann Georg
Date of Birth	October 16, 1720 ( 1720-10-16 )
Place of Birth	Winterthur , canton of Zurich , Switzerland
Date of death	February 27, 1779 ( 1779-02-27 ) (58 years old)
Place of death	Berlin
A country	Kingdom of Prussia
Language (s) of works	Deutsch

He was a professor of mathematics at the noble academy in Berlin . In his main work, which was widely used at one time: “Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste” (Lp., 1771 - 1774 , also 1792 - 1794 ; with the additions of Blankenburg 1796 - 1798 , Dick and Schütz 1792 - 1808 ), Sulzer sought to eclectic reconciliation of Wolf's philosophy with the aesthetic views of French and English thinkers.

In 1751 and 1752, Sulzer, in articles reprinted in his Vermischte Schriften (Lp., 1773 - 1785 ), developed the idea that the dark representations of the soul come down mainly to sensations of her own state, and saw in these sensations a cross between clear representations and desires. This marked the beginning of the doctrine of the triple abilities of the human soul, developed in more detail by Mendelssohn . His Russian Conversations on the Beauty of Nature (St. Petersburg 1777 ), New Theory of Pleasures ( Levitsky , edition of the Main Directorate School, St. Petersburg 1813 ) and The Exercise for Arousing Attention and Reflection (St. Petersburg 1801 ) were translated into Russian. )