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https://doi.org/10.21464/fi36101

Contemporary Methodological Challenges in Interpreting Presocratic Philosophy

Jasmina Naumoska ; Univerzitet »Sv. Kiril i Metodij« vo Skopje, Filozofski fakultet, Bul. Goce Delčev 9A, MK–1000 Skopje

Abstract

The history of philosophy, seen as an activity of perpetual rereading of philosophy’s past in the light of new contexts, always has to be faced with the interpretative methodological challenges of its own time. The contemporary interpretation of the Presocratics has to: give anew an answer to the question of what represents the Presocratic philosophy; determine the interpretive approach in accordance with the methods that are used during that process; evaluate how much today’s world view can digress from historic-philosophical reality; but also establish minimum standards for methodologically appropriate interpretation. Within this theoretical framework, through detecting some contemporary interpretative tendencies of the Presocratic philosophy, this text problematizes the identity of the Presocratics, analyzes the approaches of “philosophical synthesis”, “philological analysis” and “philosophical analysis”, brings out the endeavors for overcoming certain interpretive stereotypes, but also lays down the founding conditions for a methodologically opportune interpretation. In addition, this paper points out, analogously to the view-point that philosophy is an open and endless process, the opinion that history of philosophy, as immanently philosophical discipline, cannot lay down permanent methodological standards.

Keywords

Presocratics; interpretation; methodology; contemporary philosophy

Hrčak ID:

165873

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/165873

Publication date:

5.4.2016.

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