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Gwendoline Jarczyk
Gwendoline Jarczyk (23 August 1927 – 18 November 2021) was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and translator, specialising in Hegel and Master Eckhart. Biography Gwendoline Jarczyk was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1927 to a Polish father, a doctor, and a French mother from Normandy. She left Poland in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of war. Since then, she has lived in Paris and devoted herself to research and publications in philosophy and mysticism, focusing mainly on two authors of whom she was a specialist: Meister Eckhart, a Theology, theologian of German mysticism, Rhenish mysticism from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and Hegel, a German philosopher from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Work In the 1970s, G. Jarczyk prepared a doctorate in philosophy under the supervision of Paul Ricœur and defended her thesis ''Système et liberté dans la logique de Hegel'' (''System and Freedom in Science of Logic, Hegel's logic'') in 1979 at the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Philosophy
Western philosophy refers to the Philosophy, philosophical thought, traditions and works of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western culture, beginning with the ancient Greek philosophy of the Pre-Socratic philosophy, pre-Socratics. The word ''philosophy'' itself originated from the Ancient Greek (φιλοσοφία), literally, "the love of wisdom" , "to love" and σοφία ''Sophia (wisdom), sophía'', "wisdom". History Ancient The scope of ancient Western philosophy included the problems of philosophy as they are understood today; but it also included many other disciplines, such as pure mathematics and natural sciences such as physics, astronomy, and biology (Aristotle, for example, wrote on all of these topics). Pre-Socratics The pre-Socratic philosophers were interested in cosmology (the nature and origin of the universe), while rejecting unargued fables in place for argued theory, i.e., dogma superseded reason, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
