Od SOPHIA do PHILOSOPHIA
From SOPHIA to PHILOSOPHIA

Summary/Abstract: By referring to original Greek texts the Author seeks to demonstrate that primarily (from Homerus to Plato as well as to Aristotle in part) the Greek SOPHIA did not indicate wisdom at all, but the mastery of practical character. Similarly, at its beginning the term PHILOSOPHIA was not a love of disinterestedly cognized truth in a scientific way, but a passion of cognition following the interest (Herodotus, Thucydides). Definitely the establishment of philosophy as science, determined by its own object, method, and aim, was done by Aristotle. Even today philosophy, comprehended in a scientific way, has no its equivalent in Oriental cultures, so to speak of a Chinese or Japanese phi-losophy is a mere misuse.

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