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2020, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Turbulent political situation and no continuity of organized philosophical activity on the territory of the present-day Croatia in the Renaissance period allow only for an overview of individual philosophers who originated from that territory, or conducted their philosophical activities there, between the 15th and the 17th century. A few of these thinkers were influenced by the cultures of Central Europe, but most came from the coastal area which belonged to the Italian cultural and political sphere, especially that of the Republic of Venice. Most philosophers in this entry received their education and pursued their careers abroad, in cities of Italy and other European centres. Biographies, achievements and main works of these thinkers are grouped into four topographic sections: (1) the continental area, (2) the northern coastal area, (3) central Dalmatia and (4) south Dalmatia, in particularly the Republic of Dubrovnik. Within each section, philosophers are listed in chronological order. Philosophers of wider renown are mentioned briefly, mainly to situate them in this context and to refer the reader to the corresponding biographical essays.
Međunarodni interdisciplinarni 3. Kongres Centra za interdisciplinarna istraživanja Filozofskog fakulteta Osijek: »Društvo, znanost i umjetnost u (post)digitalnom dobu, 2023
Postdigitality has not bypassed research on Croatian philosophical heritage. On this occasion, we shall exemplify this claim by research conducted on the oration Erit tibi gloria (1424) by the Dubrovnik early Renaissance thinker Ivan Stojković (project FFOS-003). Erit tibi gloria is an oration whose Latin autograph, as well as many of his other autographs, Stojković bequeathed to the Basel Dominicans. This oration is preserved in Basel’s university library under the signature A VI 35. For the purposes of our research, we obtained the oration Erit tibi gloria in digital form. The work on its transcription, translation into Croatian and content analysis was greatly supported by digital sources, tools and research methods. In our presentation, we shall offer an answer to the following question: is it possible to do research on Croatian philosophical heritage of Stojković’s time without reaching for digital materials? / Postdigitalnost nije zaobišla ni istraživanja hrvatske filozofske baštine. Tu ćemo tvrdnju ovom prilikom oprimjeriti istraživanjem govora Erit tibi gloria (1424.) dubrovačkog ranorenesansnog mislioca Ivana Stojkovića (projekt FFOS-003). Erit tibi gloria je govor čiji je latinski autograf, kao i, uostalom, brojne druge svoje autografe, Stojković oporučno ostavio baselskim dominikancima. Taj se govor u tamošnjoj sveučilišnoj knjižnici čuva pod signaturom A VI 35. Za potrebe našeg istraživanja, govor Erit tibi gloria pribavili smo u digitalnu obliku. Rad na njegovu prijepisu, pa prijevodu na hrvatski jezik i analiziranju sadržaja uvelike je bio potpomognut digitalnim izvorima, alatima i istraživačkim metodama. U izlaganju ćemo ponuditi odgovor na sljedeće pitanje: je li moguće istraživati hrvatsku filozofsku baštinu Stojkovićeva vremena bez posezanja za digitalnim materijalima?
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 15, 2018
Boguska Anna, The sources of rationalism in Croatia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A study of less obvious cases (physics, theology, and politics). "Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne" 15. Poznań 2018. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, pp. 33-50, ISSN 2084-3011. The paper is an attempt to describe the reception of the idea of rationalism in order to represent its reworking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Croatia in three areas-physics, theology and politics. The authoress reveals how the method developed by Newton in the field of natural sciences has found an application in other disciplines of knowledge, and most of all in theology. In Croatia, this resulted in the application of the category of Kantian reason to ethical considerations. As a rationalist project in the field of politics, cameralism is indicated, an economic doctrine popular in the German and Austrian territories which was closely connected with the development of the enlightened monarchy and bureaucracy in the early modern period.
The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija, The Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People
Kultura (Skopje), 2015
Croatian Renaissance literary culture did not form its literary in the same way as did the Italians. Therefore, the "canonical order" of sixteenth-century Croatian literary culture is usually associated with the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century synthetic literary history. However, if we have in mind the thesis of Harold Bloom that "canonical writers" are those in whose poetics exhibit "anticanonical elements," or in other words, that all great writers reading their predecessors face the fear of the impact and enable activities of their own imagination, then we can say – albeit very cautiously – that Croatian Renaissance literary culture has at least a few "canonical authors": Mavro Vetranovic, Petar Zoranic, Petar Hektorovic and Marin Držic
2008
Medieval Serbian philosophy took shape mostly through the process of translating Byzantine texts and revising the Slavic translations. Apart from the Aristotelian terminological tradition, introduced via the translation of Damascene’s Dialectic, there also was, under the influence of the Corpus Areopagiticum and ascetic literature, notably of John Climacus’ Ladder, another strain of thought originating from Christian Platonism. Damascene’s philosophical chapters, or Dialectic, translated into medieval Serbian in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, not only shows the high standards of translation technique developed in Serbian monastic scriptoria, but testifies to a highly educated readership interested in such a complex theologico-philosophical text with its nuanced terminology. A new theological debate about the impossibility of knowing God led to Gregory Palamas’ complex text, The Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Philosophical texts were frequently copied and much worked on in medieval Serbia, but it is difficult to infer about the actual scope of their influence on the formation and articulation of the worldview of medieval society. As a result of their demanding theoretical complexity, the study of philosophy was restricted to quite narrow monastic, court and urban circles. However, the strongest aspect of the influence of Byzantine thought on medieval society was the liturgy as the central social event of the community. It was through the liturgy that the wording of the translated texts influenced the life of medieval Serbian society. Key words: medieval Serbian philosophical legacy, Byzantine philosophy, terminology, translation schools, medieval Serbian society, liturgy
2012
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.
In: Mester, Béla; Smoczyński, Rafał (szerk.) Lords and Boors – Westernisers and ‘Narodniks’ : Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History Budapest, Magyarország : Gondolat Publishers, 2020
Even though there obviously were individual professional philosophers in Hungary prior to 1882 (to begin with, the occupants of the chairs of philosophy at the University of Pozsony ([today Bratislava in Slovakia), ], later of (Buda)pest, also the University of Kolozsvár ([today Cluj in Romania) ] since 1872, respectively at the various educational institutes on tertiary and sub-tertiary levels), there were no professional philosophers in the collective sense, at least when one subscribes to the plausible view that the establishment of the corresponding professional form of the public sphere (Öffentlichkeit) constitutes a prerequisite of the latter. The aim of the present paper is to study the members of one, or arguably the first of such venues of professional philosophical life in Hungary, namely the authors of the Magyar Philosophiai Szemle (Hungarian Philosophical Review), the first philosophical journal in Hungary that appeared in print between 1882 and 1891 (this journal is not to be confused with its namesake, the modern-day Magyar Filozófiai Szemle, which was first published in 1957 and still serves as the focal point of Hungarian professional philosophy). In a certain sense, the present investigation is underpinned by the conviction that, at least in case of the Magyar Philosophiai Szemle (the late volumes of which were often criticized for the declining editorial standards and the proliferation of the philosophy du jour, i.e., French positivism), the ‘Who?’ might be more important than the ‘What?’. More precisely, the authors of the journal constitute a group of philosophers the choice of whom is not governed by a prevalent philosophical canon, but rather an external historical fact, namely their participation in this pioneering venue of Hungarian professional philosophy. Thereby, it becomes possible for the historian of philosophy to question the underlying assumptions of the received view concerning the emergence of modern philosophy. It is this larger objective to which the present study intends to contribute. In order to exploit this potential, the first challenge was to identify the authors and reconstruct their short biographies based not only on the established Hungarian biographical lexica (e.g., the works of József Szinnyei and Pál Gulyás, as well as the Magyar életrajzi lexikon [Hungarian Biographical Dictionary] and its recent counterpart, the Új magyar életrajzi lexicon [New Hungarian Biographical Dictionary] and, furthermore, the corresponding Jewish and Catholic biographical dictionaries), but also on less-accessible sources including original course catalogues, eulogies, death notices etc. The authors of the journal range from thinkers who indisputably belong to the pantheon of Hungarian philosophy, respectively of culture in general (e.g., Károly Böhm, Sámuel Brassai), to lesser-known or even peripheral ones (not to mention the fact that two authors regrettably remained unidentifiable). This observation could already constitute a lesson for the historiography of Hungarian philosophy (and Continental philosophy in general), insofar as it could serve as an antidote to the so-called ‘monumental’ way of writing the history of philosophy that focuses predominantly on ‘great books’ written by ‘great thinkers.’. What the study of flesh-and-blood people who filled the pages of actual philosophical journals could probably teach us first is that ‘great thinkers’, i.e., historical figures occupying a central position in cultural memory (respectively in the standard narrative of the history of the corresponding scientific discipline), amount only to a tiny fraction of the actual historical fabric that constitutes the scientific discipline in question. On the basis of the biographical reconstruction of this group of the first modern Hungarian philosophers, I have investigated their age and occupation (including, specifically, the age distribution of their study at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of [Buda]pest, which constitutes the university most frequently visited by them), as well as their study at universities abroad, their so-called peregrinations, their embeddedness in the Hungarian institutional network and finally, the geographical distribution of their places of birth, death and their respective places of occupation at the beginning and end of the journal’s publication period. I hope that the detailed investigations carried out in the present article could contribute in towards a way of writing the history of philosophy that is more attentive towards the hitherto marginalized sub-traditions (e.g., the sub-traditions of various confessional philosophies or the school-philosophies) outside of the historiographical mainstream. At the same time, the discrepancies manifested in this genre of philosophical history-writing, respectively the methodological tools involved might be of interest for the historiography of general European philosophy, especially of nineteenth-century German academic philosophy (Universitätsphilosophie) and the pre-history of phenomenology as well.
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