Reply to the Paper “National Philosophy as a Subject of Comparative Research”

Tomasz Mróz

doi:10.22240/sent37.01.130

Abstract

The paper aims to clarify and develop some of the issues raised by S. Rudenko & S. Yosypenko who reviewed the author’s book Selected Issues in the History of Polish Philosophy. It focuses mostly on methodological questions in the historiography of national philosophies, and on interdisciplinary approach which is presented as useful and fruitful for researching less influential philosophical traditions.

Highlights

Touches upon methodological issues which are inevitably faced by every conscientious historian of any minor philosophical tradition
Historians of minor philosophical traditions struggle with numerous difficulties in their work, and I hoped to set forth some of them
Let us turn to the issue of making minor European traditions in philosophy known to western scholarship

Summary

Introduction

Yosypenko mostly in connection with the first one, which turned out to be the most essential, most probably because of its methodological ideas, which may still be applicable and of value, and which are not limited to Polish philosophy only. Let us turn to the issue of making minor European traditions in philosophy known to western scholarship.

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