Maiksing sipi sa Kasaysayan ng Pilosopiya (sa wikang 'english'-hango sa: Jacques Maritain Center)

Nais kong ibahagi ang maikling sipi na ito kaugnay sa kahalagahan
ng Pilosopiya at kasaysayan nito na naging pundasyon sa pag-usad
ng sibilisasyon……

Jacques Maritain Center : History of Philosophy / by William Turner
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop.htm

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The philosophy of the history of philosophy is, therefore, the study of
the organic laws in obedience to which philosophy took the particular
course which it did take in its historical development. Some of these
laws we have already observed as occasion offered; we have
observed, for example, that a period of national enthusiasm and
national prosperity is usually one of great activity, and in particular of
great constructive activity, in philosophy; we have observed that the
era of introspective philosophy corresponds with the period of mental
maturity of a nation. Similarly, laws may be formulated expressive of
the influence which climate, racial characteristics, literature, art,
religion, etc., exercise on philosophy. Or, again, laws may be
formulated in reference to conditions which are internal to philosophy
itself, as for example that psychology is first dogmatic and afterwards
critical, or that a system of ethics is determined by the psychology of
the author or the school. We are not, however, concerned here with
such particular laws, but rather with the general formula under which all
the particular laws, external and internal, of the history of philosophy
may be subsumed..... http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop74.htm