Historia historii filozofii i wykluczenie myśli nieeuropejskiej z kanonu

Abstract

Exclusivism is the view that philosophy is a practice specific to Euro pean culture and does not exist outside of it. In this article, I will attempt to explain the origins of exclusivism. I will try to demonstrate that – despite its popularity – it is a relatively recent view. The exclusion of non-European thought from the concept of philosophy was unknown to ancient, medieval, and early modern authors. Follow ing Peter Park, I will argue that the roots of this exclusionary view should be sought in the methodological reform of the history of philosophy as a discipline, which was accompanied by the emergence of the concept of a philosophical canon. I will con clude the historical overview of the approaches to the history of philosophy and its permissible scope with an analysis of the three most popular academic textbooks in Poland. By reviewing the views of Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Frederick Copleston, and Giovanni Reale on the existence of non-European philosophy, I will aim to show how exclusivism reproduces itself in its naive, unreflective form.