Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 27 No. 2, 2012.
Original scientific paper
Toward a Central-European Comparative History of Philosophy. After Chimaerae of National Philosophies – the Hungarian Case
Béla Mester
orcid.org/0000-0001-8504-638X
; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
An important task of a Central-European historian of philosophy was in the last decades to interpret the suddenly reappeared elements of her or his own national culture, including the common key word of these traditions – national philosophy. My paper offers a historical reconstruction of the concept of national philosophy, based on Hungarian examples. In the first part I will outline several contemporary dilemmas about the use of this term. The main part of my paper links this concept with the transformation of the public sphere of the scholars in the age of Kantianism, including Kant’s personal reflections, and the narrative of the Hungarian “Debate on Kant”. I will try to demonstrate, by the analysis of this debate, that it cannot be interpreted in a plausible form in a European, nor in a national framework, but just as a part of a would-be Central-European comparative history of philosophy.
Keywords
Gusztáv Szontagh; József Rozgonyi; reception of Kant in Hungary; national characteristics; national philosophy; philosophia in sensu cosmopolitico; philosophia in sensu scholastico
Hrčak ID:
101720
URI
Publication date:
19.2.2013.
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