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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp31202

An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Indian and European Philosophy

Čedomil Veljačić


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Abstract

This text is the introduction to Čedomil Veljačić’s (1915–1997) doctoral thesis defended at the University of Zagreb in 1962 under the title Komparativno proučavanje indijske I evropske filozofije (Comparative Investigation of Indian and European Philosophy), which was never published. The author, who was a pioneer of comparative philosophical research in the region of Southeast Europe, assesses three separate fields connected with conducting comparative philosophy: archaeology, language studies, and philosophy, whilst concentrating on methodology (methodological criteria for the comparative approach and doxographic methods). He argues towards a general revision of the criteria posited for the study of the history of philosophy, but the sine qua non within the stimuli will still be the discovery of immediate and initial values that comparative philosophizing and an applied comparative method can offer through the doxographic method, so that the author’s study remains within the frame of a preliminary critical work meant to encourage a systematic discussion on comparative philosophy seen as a specific discipline in keeping with Paul Masson-Oursel. The issue of the comparative method in his previously unpublished study was applied to the study of European philosophy in relation to Eastern traditions of thought.

Keywords

comparative philosophy and methodology; criteria for the comparative approach and doxographic methods; comparative philosophical standards

Hrčak ID:

185352

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185352

Publication date:

14.2.2017.

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