Komparativna filozofija evolucija jednog pristupa istoriji filozofije
Comparative Philosophy. Evolution in Understanding History of Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Communication between Europe and other regions in the world existed (more or less) depending on various circumstances, close to the beginning of Christianity. Import of silk, taking over certain “know-how” – like producing paper, silk, porcelain, steel, or printing), various inventions (compass, gun-powder, seismograph, etc.), or numerical systems (Arab-Indian numerals), went from East to West, between 100-1500 AD. A bit later, in colonial times the import of certain goods went on (coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, shawls, porcelain, or furniture). The next step was interest for Oriental culture, which followed Enlightenment times in Europe, and the discovery of values and ideas of the heritage of Asian cultures, gaining momentum during the 19th and 20th c. This took various forms and was developed in various fields. The first was related to language studies (in particular Sanskrit, which was considered as a proto-language of Indo-European languages). The second was comparative literature; third comparative mythology, religion, and mysticism; the fourth was comparative philosophy; the fifth, history of art, comparative aesthetics, and transcultural art philosophy; sixth was comparative psychology. “Oriental” studies meant that certain humanistic sciences took over the heritage of various culture of the East, “comparative” meant that in such cases the historian makes comparisons between western and eastern philosophies (noticing differences, similarities, or analogous ideas), while “transcultural” meant that the general standpoint went over Eurocentrism, which considered that certain cultural values, or creations, were a privilege of Europe, or European discoveries, which other cultures just had to take over in later times.

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