Georgian Philosophy from the Phasis Academy to the Present Day (Main Tendencies)
Georgian Philosophy from the Phasis Academy to the Present Day (Main Tendencies)

Summary/Abstract: Georgian philosophy has a long and rich tradition spanning over fifteen centuries, dating back to the 4th century. It reached particular heights during the11th–12th and 19th–20th centuries. Georgian thinkers became familiar, often contemporaneously, with the philosophical heritage from antiquity to modern times, interpreting, translating, and producing their own original works. Throughthis, they engaged with the prevailing intellectual paradigms of their eras and contributed actively to the study and development of the fundamental problems of philosophy.There was a prolonged period characterized by a decline in philosophical thought(from the second half of the 13th century to the 17th century), which was primarily conditioned by the weakening and fall of Georgian statehood. Notably, the 20th century saw the rise of Georgian philosophical thinking, which fully integrated European intellectual traditions and gave rise to a new and original body of philosophical thought.For a long time, the prevailing assumption was that philosophy could only be either German or Greek, as Wilhelm Windelband asserted, and that its study was confined to these two centers. Yet perhaps Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari were correct in suggesting that wherever philosophy emerges, it undergoes a process of territorialization. Philosophy, as the exchange of ideas, requires wandering across various “territories”, Thinking about the “geography of philosophy” has become relevant since the paradigm of a single philosophical center was abandoned. This provides a solid foundation for confidently discussing the existence of a “Georgian philosophy”.

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