Rola encyklopedii filozoficznych w historii kultury
The role of philosophical encyclopedias in the history of culture

Summary/Abstract: Philosophical encyclopedias appeared only by the end of Middle Ages in the Western Europe. Earlier there were certain works which the name of encyclopedias received much later as they contained a set of the whole knowledge of their times, e.g. Rerum divinarum et humanarum antiquitates by M. T. Warron (116-27 B.C.), or Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (560-636). The author correlates philosophical encyclopedias, e.g. Instauratio magna by Francis Bacon, or Great French Encyclopedia, with historical changes of the character of philosophy, and concludes that there is a need of an encyclopedia which will recover the proper name and status of philosophy in culture as the love of wisdom and truth. He hopes that such a task will be carried out by The Universal Encyclopaedia of Philosophy edited by the Polish Association of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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