The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'

by Catana, Leo

• ISBN13: 9789004166486
• ISBN10: 9004166483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Contextualizing the emergence of history op philosophy within eighteenth-century German Enlightenment, this book discusses the philosophical nature of the historiographical concept 'system of philosophy' and the concept's influence upon the methods of history of philosophy and history of ideas.

Author Biography

Leo Catana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

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The Concept 'System of Philosophy': The Case of Jacob Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
The Notion 'System of Philosophy' as a Historiographical Tool in Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae	p. 13
Brucker's Historiographical Notion 'System of Philosophy' and the Notions 'Syncretism' and 'Eclecticism'	p. 22
The Usefulness of the Concept 'System of Philosophy'	p. 31
Brucker's Practice I: His Exposition of Bruno	p. 35
Brucker's Exposition of Bruno's Philosophy and Earlier Histories of Philosophy	p. 36
Direct Sources: Brucker's List of Bruno's Works and his Use of them	p. 37
Brucker's Exclusion of Bruno's Lullian Works	p. 41
Indirect Sources	p. 43
Bruno's so-called Circumstances	p. 44
Brucker on Bruno's 'System of Philosophy'	p. 50
Did Bruno Endorse a System of Philosophy?	p. 54
Brucker's Practice II: His Expositions of Thales, Plato and Aristotle	p. 63
Is Brucker's Exposition of Bruno Representative?	p. 63
Brucker on Thales	p. 64
Brucker on Plato	p. 73
Brucker on Aristotle	p. 94
Giordano Bruno's Hermeneutics: Observations on the Bible in De monade (1591)	p. 115
The Main Source for Bruno's Interpretation of the Bible	p. 115
The Historiographical Tradition	p. 117
Bruno's Theory of Nine Levels of Meaning in Divinely Inspired Texts	p. 124
Uses of the Hermeneutic Theory outside De monade	p. 140
Apologetic Strains in Brucker's Historiography of Philosophy	p. 147
Conflicting Statements regarding the Objectivity of Brucker's Historiography	p. 147
Brucker on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation	p. 150
Historiographical Implications of Brucker's Conception of Philosophy	p. 156
Heumann on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation	p. 159
Melanchton on the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelation	p. 165
Heumann's Scheme of Periodization	p. 169
Keckermann's Pedagogical and Methodological Reform	p. 177
Brucker's Immediate Background: Eclecticism	p. 185
The Influence of the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'	p. 193
Internal and External Influences	p. 193
History of Philosophy	p. 195
History of Problems	p. 260
History of Ideas	p. 265
The Legitimacy of the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'	p. 283
Prevailing Models in Modern Historiography of Philosophy	p. 283
Problems in the Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy'	p. 284
Skinner's Historiography of Moral and Political Philosophy	p. 304
Appendices
Portraits of Jacob Brucker	p. 331
Jacob Brucker's Citations in his Exposition of Giordano Bruno	p. 335
Christoph August Heumann's Scheme of Periodization	p. 341
Jacob Brucker's Scheme of Periodization	p. 345
Bibliography	p. 351
Index of Names	p. 369
Index of References to Jacob Brucker's Writings	p. 378
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