INTERNAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

• Authors: Hangai Atilla
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

I defend an internal history of philosophy that prioritizes philosophical reasons over cultural factors. This approach contrasts with a broadly contextualist endeavour invoking cultural factors without clear ground. I argue that the latter path is either too permissive or leads to aiming at a complete historical account. Neither way is acceptable: the former obliterates the correctness of interpretation; the latter dissolves history of philosophy in general history and is practically impossible. Instead, the internal history I propose – based primarily on Michael Frede’s and Maurice Mandelbaum’s historiography – prioritizes philosophical reasoning and appeals to external contextual factors in a principled way when it is necessary to supplement philosophical considerations.

Keywords

EN

INTERNAL HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; HISTORIOGRAPHY; MICHAEL FREDE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 848 – 864

Contributors

author

Hangai Atilla

• Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, Tóth Kálmán utca 4, 1097 Budapest, Hungary

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0414-1156

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2023.78.10.4