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A Preliminary View of How Mediterranean Philosophy Enters into Global Philosophy

Author(s): Heda Festini
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: enrichment of the world; historization of temporality; authentic possibility; Mediterranean Philosophy as a Sign of World Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Not only does Mediterranean philosophy contribute to the genesis and susequent development of world philosophy, but it also lends it its original stamp. A breaf analysis of elements such as: 1) Greco-Judean and Latin scholasticism; 2) the role of magic and misticism; 3) the stimulation of scientific interest especially in Arabic scholasticism; 4) in history of human beings the struggle for themselves from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century should show, with a special emphasis on Croatian philosophers, that the basic conception of Mediterranean philosophy consists in enrichment of the world. Through futures tasks for Mediterranean philosophy it will be indicated how to find ways to secure the concept of possibility as the main currency in the perspective of enriching the world – a most authentic perspective for world philosophy.

  • Issue Year: 27/2007
  • Issue No: 03/107
  • Page Range: 513-521
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Croatian