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Jun 14, 2024 · In the late-1970s the British philosopher Jonathan Rée argued that the idea that there is a “history of philosophy” emerged at the same time as the constitution of philosophy as an academic discipline, which involved a shift from the idea of philosophy as part of an individual's intellectual and perhaps even moral development to its making a claim for itself as having “a special place ...
my first thesis: There is philosophical value in the history of philosophy, if and when it is an integral part of philosophy. I shall try to explain this. proposition which, at first, may appear both obscure and tautological.
Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism , literary criticism , history , and linguistics with strong ties to etymology .
Dec 8, 2022 · Although many historians of philosophy work co-operatively with their ahistorical colleagues and vice versa, some tension between the two groups remains. This is most obvious among defenders of what I call the Separation Thesis – the view that the history of philosophy is separate from, and subordinate to, philosophy proper.
Some theorists contend that the history of philosophy is an integral part of philosophy. [4] For example, Neo-Kantians like Wilhelm Windelband argue that philosophy is essentially historical and that it is not possible to understand a philosophical position without understanding how it emerged.
As Hamacher states, “philology is in the first place and before all else the repetition of the distance that separates its word from every earlier one, and even this word from its predecessors” (154). The turns and returns of philology have become a trope itself, an Odyssean polytropos.
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Philology is a universal form of knowledge, and not a particularistic or areal form masquerading as such (unlike, say, political science, which at most US universities has become a mathematized form of American studies).
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