FILOSOFIJOS ORIGINALUMAS IR ORIGINALUMAS FILOSOFIJOJE: LIETUVA IR PASAULIS*
ORIGINALITY OF AND IN PHILOSOPHY: LITHUANIA AND THE WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The search after the specificity of original Western philosophy lies at the bottom of the metaphilosophical debate from its very incipience. In the last century, given the rapid and overwhelming proliferation of variated philosophical discourses and growing multi¬tudes of professionals, we also face another formula¬tion of the old question. It pertains to the originality within our philosophical tradition, and perhaps it also determines the value of these many proliferations itself. Thus, first, the article claims that originality of philosophy should be carefully distinguished from originality in philosophy, i.e. that we should draw a line between originality of the definite conceptual praxis and the individual or collective originality of a concrete way it is cultivated. Second, originality in philosophy is constituted by the basic characteristics of the originality of philosophy, which are posited as a twofold imperative of questioning foundationism and apodictic recursiveness. Third, the perplexing abundance of originality criteria could be reduced by the principle of authentic and appropriate participation in the available philosophical discourse, even though this principle itself cannot be applied univocally and settled once for all. From this perspective, the originality of lithuanian, like of any other, national Western philosophy consists not in its deviance from the traditional mode of discourse, but in its potential to partake in it both authentically, i.e. openly and sincerely, and appropriately, i.e. in a strict correspond¬ence with the basic imperatives of the still ongoing discursive praxis. Keywords: originality, metaphilosphy, specifi¬city of philosophy, Western philosophy.

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