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Utopia: Johann Peter Süßmilch and the Divine Order

In: The State as Utopia

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  • Gerhard Scheuerer

    (University of Erfurt)

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Johann Peter Süßmilch lived in the eighteenth century in Germany. He was a contemporary of well-known German scientists, philosopher Christian Wolff and cameralist Johann von Justi. Süßmilch served as Prussian army priest and provost in the parish Berlin-Cölln. He is a representative of German cameralism, which cautioned about turning away from religion to listen to reason, and was engaged as a statistician and demographer concerning with actual statistical data of the time. In this essay, Süßmilch’s Devine Order of population is shown as part of the intellectual and spiritual antagonism towards the rising importance of reason at the time. Finally, Süßmilch’s awarenesses are compared with Malthus’ later-published Principles of Population.

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  • Gerhard Scheuerer, 2011. "Utopia: Johann Peter Süßmilch and the Divine Order," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Georg Backhaus (ed.), The State as Utopia, pages 183-189, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-1-4419-7500-3_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7500-3_14
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