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The historiographical concept 'system of philosophy' : its origin, nature, influence, and legitimacy /

Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740s. In order to separate this new discipline from other historical disciplines, he introduced the historiographical concept 'system of philosophy'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Catana, Leo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 165.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Citations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One The Concept 'System of Philosophy': The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Notion 'System of Philosophy' as a Historiographical Tool in Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae
  • III. Brucker's Historiographical Notion 'System of Philosophy' and the Notions 'Syncretism' and 'Eclecticism'
  • IV. The Usefulness of the Concept 'System of Philosophy'
  • Chapter Two Brucker's Practice I: His Exposition of Bruno
  • I. Brucker's Exposition of Bruno's Philosophy and Earlier Histories of Philosophy
  • II. Direct Sources: Brucker's List of Bruno's Works and his Use of them
  • III. Brucker's Exclusion of Bruno's Lullian Works
  • IV. Indirect Sources
  • V. Bruno's so-called Circumstances
  • VI. Brucker on Bruno's 'System of Philosophy'
  • VII. Did Bruno Endorse a System of Philosophy?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Three Brucker's Practice II: His Expositions of Thales, Plato and Aristotle
  • I. Is Brucker's Exposition of Bruno Representative?
  • II. Brucker on Thales
  • (i) Sources to Thales' Philosophy
  • (ii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Thales?
  • (iii) General Principles in Thales' System of Philosophy
  • (iv) Brucker's Reconstruction of Thales' System of Philosophy
  • (v) Is Brucker's Exposition of Thales' Philosophy Adequate?
  • III. Brucker on Plato
  • (i) Brucker's Approach to Plato's Philosophy
  • (ii) Sources to Plato's Philosophy
  • (iii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Plato?
  • (iv) General Principles in Plato's System of Philosophy
  • (v) Brucker's Reconstruction of Plato's System of Philosophy
  • (vi) Is Brucker's Reconstruction of Plato's Philosophy Adequate?
  • IV. Brucker on Aristotle
  • (i) Sources to Aristotle's Philosophy
  • (ii) Does Brucker Attribute a System of Philosophy to Aristotle?
  • (iii) General Principles in Aristotle's System of Philosophy
  • (iv) Brucker's Reconstruction of Aristotle's System of Philosophy
  • (v) Is Brucker's Exposition of Aristotle's Philosophy Adequate?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Four Giordano Bruno's Hermeneutics: Observations on the Bible in De monade (1591)
  • I. The Main Source for Bruno's Interpretation of the Bible
  • II. The Historiographical Tradition
  • III. Bruno's Theory of Nine Levels of Meaning in Divinely Inspired Texts
  • (i) The Range of Texts on which the Theory can be Applied
  • (ii) The Infi nity and Profundity of Divine Language
  • (iii) The Application of the Theory
  • (iv) The Sources for the Nine Individual Levels of Meaning
  • IV. Uses of the Hermeneutic Theory outside De monade
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five Apologetic Strains in Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy
  • I. Confl icting Statements regarding the Objectivity of Brucker's Historiography
  • II. Brucker on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation
  • III. Historiographical Implications of Brucker's Conception of Philosophy
  • IV. Heumann on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation
  • V. Melanchton on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation
  • VI. Heumann's Scheme of Periodization
  • VII. Keckermann's Pedagogical and Methodological Reform
  • VIII. Brucker's Immediate Background: Eclecticism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Six The Infl uence of the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'
  • I. Internal and External Infl uences
  • II. History of Phi.