INTERVIU CU DANIEL SCHULTESS
DANIEL SCHULTESS – AN INTERVIEW

Summary/Abstract: During a recent interview, Daniel Schultess, Professor emeritus at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, has been invited to explore the path he chose within the practice of philosophy. Thus, he was educated and trained in multicultural and multilinguistic milieus (French, German, English), he deepened his skills through fellowships and academic exchanges in Germany, Great Britain and the USA. Schultess taught the History of Western Philosophy and specialised himself in fields such as the Eighteenth Century Scottish Philosophy, the Nineteenth Century Austrian Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Analytical Metaphysics and Epistemology. He devoted his research to new details of the thinking and writings of philosophers such as R. Descartes, G. W. Leibniz, Th. Reid, J. G. Fichte etc. His thoughts, plainly expressed throughout the discussion with Gregorio Demarchi and Philipp Blum, reveal a strong and subtle professional consciousness of the present-date Swiss philosophy. His mind always aims for clarity, inter- and trans-disciplinarity, as well as a peculiar concern for the future of human society, observed in its most valuable cultural products, such as science, philosophy, education. In his answers, Schultess does not hesitate to publicly express some counter-intuitive opinions, which maybe the actual Academia establishment could find hard to swallow (i.e., better to publish less and in a more accomplished way than a lot of it, superficially; to reinforce language mastery in education; to lay the path for a future open to formal methods of research, without receding, however, into formalism). By an overwhelming sincerity, nor does the Swiss Professor avoid discussing the recent social world’s deep earthquakes, such as the pandemic or the war in Ukraine, as we still do not have definite methods to cope with, and whose unknown side-effects may hide additional future unfortunes.

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