The first Lithuanians to be introduced to philosophy were young members of the gentry who studied in European universities at the end of the 14th century. The recently christened Lithuania strove to ...adopt Western culture and to present itself as a Western state. At the end of the 14th century, the Vilnius Cathedral School was founded. The elements of logic were probably taught there. The growth of the political and economic power of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania brought about the need for higher education. The need was significantly increased by the growing activity of various religious orders. In 1507, the Dominicans started teaching philosophy and theology to their novices in Vilnius. They taught late medieval philosophy in its Thomistic interpretation. We can regard 1507 as the year Lithuania began to benefit from a new phenomenon, professional philosophy, with the Dominicans as its initiators. The Dominicans and later the Jesuits, Franciscans, Benedictines, Carmelites, Trinitarians, and other monastic orders enriched intellectual life in Lithuania by teaching philosophy in their schools. The most important event in the development of philosophy in Lithuania was the foundation of Vilnius University in 1579. The disciplines belonging to scholasticism of the second level were taught in its philosophy department.
The first Lithuanians to be introduced to philosophy were young members of the gentry who studied in
European universities at the end of the 14th century. The recently baptized Lithuania strove to ...adopt Western culture and to present itself as a Western state. At the end of the 14th century, Vilnius Cathedral School was founded. The elements of logic were probably taught there. The growth of the political and economic power of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania brought about the need for higher education. The need was significantly increased by the growing activity of various religious orders. In 1507, the Dominicans started teaching philosophy and theology to their novicies in Vilnius. They were able to teach late medieval philosophy in its thomistic interpretation. We can regard 1507 as the year Lithuania benefited from a new phenomenon, professional philosophy, and the Dominicans as its initiators. The Dominicans and later the Jesuits, Franciscans, Bernardines, Carmelites, Trinitarians and other monastic orders enriched intellectual life in Lithuania by teaching philosophy in their schools. The most important event in the development of philosophy in Lithuania was the foundation of Vilnius University in 1579. The disciplines usual to second level scholastics were taught in its philosophy department.
The first Lithuanians to be introduced to philosophy were young members of the gentry who studied in European universities at the end of the 14th century. The graduates of European universities ...introduced Renaissance ideas to Lithuanian society and applied a new humanist philosophical mentality in their own historical, fictional and public writings. The growth of the political and economic power of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania brought about the need of higher education. The need was significantly increased by the growing activity of various religious orders. In 1507 the Dominicans started teaching philosophy and theology to their novices in Vilnius. They were able to teach late medieval philosophy in its thomistic interpretation. We can regard 1507 as the year Lithuania benefited from a new phenomenon, professional philosophy, and the Dominicans as its initiators. The secular academic teaching was launched by the Jesuits. The most important event in the development of philosophy in Lithuania was the foundation of Vilnius University in 1579. The disciplines usual to second level scholastics were thought in the department of philosophy. At Vilnius University, along with scholastic theories of natural philosophy, Renaissance and modern theories of nature were studied. In the mid 18th, century philosophy in Lithuania entered a new period of development which marked the end of scholastics and the spread of the philosophy of modern times. In the 19th century, the Vilnius epistemological school was formed and the romantic philosophy spread. When the University of Lithuania was founded in 1922, studies of philosophy were concentrated in two faculties: Theological-philosophical and the Humanities. The Theological-philosophical faculty became the main centre of philosophic studies and Catholic philosophy. The Lithuanian philosophical tradition was interrupted by soviet occupation. At that time the propagation of the best ideas of philosophical heritage of the world roused and strengthened national consciousness and sustained national mentality. Writings of the émigré authors also signify the continuity of Lithuanian philosophy. With Lithuania’s statehood reestablished, the free country provides for philosophers the freedom of search.
Jan Śniadecki was a famous scientist and the Rector of Vilnius University during 1807–1815. He was an initiator of philosophy of mathematics in Lithuania and created his philosophical works in ...Vilnius. Śniadecki was a philosopher of science and created the background of the metaphysics of mathematics, which investigates the foundation of mathematics. Śniadecki’s treatise “On the mathematical thinking” is published in this issue.
Problemos ištirtumo laipsnis tas, kad lenkų teisės ir politinės minties istorijos tyrinėtojai yra analizavę renesansinę teisės filosofiją, išreikštą senojo Vilniaus universiteto teisės profesoriaus ...A.A. Olizarovskio veikale De politica hominum societate, ir paskelbė pripažintus šio veikalo idėjų tyrinėjimus. Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama teisės filosofija senajame Universitete, išsakyta iki šiol netirtuose jos šaltiniuose.
The article reflects on the question of the greatness in philosophy and Immanuel Kant’s contribution as the grand enrichment. The academic world of the professors of philosophy is the instance that ...defines the criterion of greatness in philosophy. Both the work’s style and mistakes are not considered as such criterion. Kant was one of the creators of the eighteen-century mind. He discovered the new Foundations for person and value of human beings.
Problemos ištirtumo laipsnis tas, kad lenkų teisės ir politinės minties istorijos tyrinėtojai yra analizavę renesansinę teisės filosofiją, išreikštą senojo Vilniaus universiteto teisės profesoriaus ...A.A. Olizarovskio veikale De politica hominum societate, ir paskelbė pripažintus šio veikalo idėjų tyrinėjimus. Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama teisės filosofija senajame Universitete, išsakyta iki šiol netirtuose jos šaltiniuose.
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