National Philosophy as a Subject of Comparative Research

Serhii Yosypenko,Sergii Rudenko

doi:10.22240/sent37.01.120

Serhii Yosypenko, Sergii Rudenko

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Journal: Sententiae	Publication Date: Jun 16, 2018
Citations: 5	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Abstract

The article continues the discussion “Can be understood as a strictly defined object of research?” initiated in volumeXXX of Sententiae. Analyzing Tomasz Mroz’ book “Selected Issues in the History of Polish Philosophy” (2016), the authors compare the problems of historiography of Polish and Ukrainian philosophy. The authors believe that Mroz’ bookoffers an interesting perspective of comparative study of national philosophical traditions, the idea of which was suggested earlier by Vasyl Lisovy. The authors focus on the heuristic potential of the Mroz’ analysis of discussions concerning possible distinction between the terms “Polish philosophy“ and “philosophy in Poland” and his studies of Plato's reception in Poland. Such analysis allows us to raise several questions: (1) are the studies of “Polish philosophy” and “philosophy in Poland” not mutuallyexclusive, but, on the contrary, complementary genres of historiography of national philosophy? (2) howtodistinguish in the analysisof the reception of a certain philosophical doctrine in national philosophy things pertaining to the history of this philosophy as a whole, from things pertaining to the history of development of the doctrine itself?

Highlights

The book by Tomasz Mróz, the Professor at Zielona Góra University of Poland, is an interesting example of international university cooperation
The idea of comparative philosophy arose in the 20th century, with the advent, in the intellectual space of Western philosophy, of a fair amount of scientific knowledge on Eastern philosophy
As far as the authors are concerned, the comparative approach has not yet been used in solving the problem of defining the Ukrainian philosophical tradition as a research object, though the idea of comparative research of national philosophical traditions was introduced by the Ukrainian philosopher Vasyl Lisovyi (19372012)

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The book by Tomasz Mróz, the Professor at Zielona Góra University of Poland, is an interesting example of international university cooperation. In this book Tomasz Mróz first of all aims at summarizing and setting forth, in a stylistically available way, the results of his own original research in the field of history of Polish philosophy.

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