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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 3116144
TI  - The historiographical concept 'system of philosophy' : its origin, nature, influence, and legitimacy
PY  - 2008
VL  - 165
SN  - 9789004166486 9004166483 9786613060853 904743336X 128306085X 9789047433361
PB  - Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Methodology.
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Historiography.
KW  - History.
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Brucker, Johann Jakob,
KW  - Brucker, Johann Jakob, 1696-1770.
KW  - Philosophy -- Historiography.
KW  - Philosophy -- History.
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Research
KW  - Bruckerus, Iacobus
KW  - Humanities Methodology
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3116144
AB  - Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) established the history of philosophy as a philosophical discipline in the 1740's. In order to separate this new discipline from other historical disciplines, he introduced the historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’. The historian of philosophy should use this concept as a criterion of inclusion of past philosophies, and as an ideal form of exposition. The present book describes the origin of this historiographical notion, its implicit Protestant assumptions, and it traces the concept’s impact upon the methods of history of philosophy and history of ideas, as developed over the following centuries. Finally, it discusses the concept’s strengths and weaknesses as a historiographical tool, arguing that it ought to be given up.
ER  -