Original scientific paper
Decline of Indigenous Terminological Endeavors and Standardization of Croatian Philosophical Terminology
Damir Barbarić
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper presents a partial analysis of philosophical terminology in the opus of Gj. Arnold, J. V Kostić, A. Bauer (on the basis of his General Metaphysics or Ontology, 1894) and A. Bazala (History of Philosophy I-III, 1906, and other works). Some of Bauer's basic solutions are examined through a critical-philosophical discussion, showing their unsystematical and inconsistent properties. The conclusion is that the vivacity of linguistic-terminological innovation of Croatian philosophy, typical of the earlier periods, and evident in Fr. Marković's efforts, declined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while terminology was gradually standardized. The standardization was a certain compromise between two extremes: total Croatization of the entire traditional philosophical terminology on the one hand and general preservation of the established European internationalisms on the other.
The paper ends with a short critical discussion about some of the recent evaluations (M. Brida, F Zenko) of the current terminological endeavors in Croatian philosophy and their future prospects.
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82202
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Publication date:
4.12.1995.
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