Original scientific paper
Croatian Logic Textbooks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century to Arnold's Logic
Srećko Kovač
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
As Croatian was established as the language of instruction in Croatian schools in the second half of the nineteenth century, almost all of the contemporary logic textbooks were written in Croatian. The basic elements of logic have already been included in the catechism methodics manual written by Stjepan Ilijašević and published in Zagreb in 1850. As far as we know, the first relatively independent logic in Croatian was the high-school textbook by Vinko Pacel (Zagreb, 1868); it incorporated the formal logic of Kantian-Herbartian form. After that, a less comprehensive Logic was written by Josip Glaser, a professor at the training-college in Petrinja (Zagreb, 1878). Glaser's psychologic orientation in logic is characteristic (he follows Dittes and Beneke). The Logic by Đuro Arnold (lst ed. 1888, 2nd ed. 1898, followed by three more) advances the "formal-real" concept as an intermediate between the formal (Herbartian) and real logic (Trendelenburg, inductive logic, logic of special sciences); some psychologistic features are present in this concept as well. Arnold's logic will be discussed in detail in a separate article, concerning especially its relations to the logic of Franjo Marković.
Translations were published at the time, too. An anonymous translation of the renowned Logic written by the Jesuit S. Tongiorgi, which builds on scholastic tradition, was thus published in Zagreb in 1871 (two vols., trans. by "a priest of the Zagreb archdiocese"). The Herbartian Logic by M. A. Orbal, widely known throughout the Monarchyat the time, was translated by the highschool professor Petar Joković (Zadar, 1882).
Apart from the fact that these books presented several different conceptions of logic promoted in 19th century to Croatia, they also document the process of formation of Croatian logical terminology. Amold's Logic is already quite close to the terminology common today, while the older Logics give evidence of the many, although still motivating, eventually abandoned terms.
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81862
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Publication date:
2.12.1991.
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