Review article
“System” in Philosophy as a Consequence of the Institutional Context of Universities
Béla Mester
orcid.org/0000-0001-8504-638X
; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
Importance of the educational context in the creation of works of philosophy is known well by the historians of philosophy. Without a target audience consisted by disciples, any philosophical work could not be formulated from Aristotle’s works through Hegel’s lectures to the present context of a philosophical work in our today academic life. The first aim of my paper is to analyse the connection between this educational context and the phenomenon of “system” in philosophy. Second aim of mine is to characterise a new cultural requirement in the 19th-century European philosophy for philosophical system-building. Third topic of my paper is the adaptation of the requirement of “system-philosophy” into the program of establishing national cultures in Central Europe of the 19th century. The consequence of this program in the age of decline of philosophical systems is the last topic of my contribution.
Keywords
Bernát Alexander; Cyrill Horváth; Gusztáv Szontagh; János Erdélyi; Károly Böhm; philosophical systems; post-Hegelian philosophy
Hrčak ID:
119714
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Publication date:
17.2.2014.
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