He imagined himself in a prolonged debate with the concept of philosophy, embodied in female form.
Bolzano elucidated his concept of philosophy and of philosophizing and put forward his view of the task of philosophy (Bolzano 1849a).
Developments at the end of the 19th and early 20th century in China led Chinese intellectuals to adopt the European concept of philosophy with its implicit distinction from religion.
In an illuminating study of the debates surrounding the concept of "philosophy" in Japan since the Meiji period (1868 1912), John Maraldo has isolated four senses in which the notion of "Japanese philosophy" has been used: (1) Western philosophy as it happens to be practiced by Japanese scholars; (2) traditional Japanese thought (Confucian, Nativist, Buddhist, etc).
Although there are differences in detail and in emphasis, they view Tempier's action as an attempt to curb the concept of philosophy as a comprehensive doctrine of natural knowledge aimed at the attainment of happiness here in this life, rather than after death.
It's a question that's as old as the concept of philosophy itself: What makes us us?
These present negative dialectics in action upon key concepts of moral philosophy ("freedom"), philosophy of history ("world spirit" and "natural history"), and metaphysics.
Others who interpret the Indian philosophies by means of the methods and concepts of analytical philosophy include B.K. Matilal and G. Misra.
Here, then, the wellspring of concerns and aspirations that gave rise to calls for, and efforts to set out, "Black" philosophy, then "Afro-American," and later "African American" philosophy, precursive efforts leading to what is now the more or less settled name, but still developing concept, of Africana philosophy.
