The Development of professional philosophy at the University of Lithuania
ENIn the absence of a center which could mobilize initiative and cultural activity, in the absence of a university with studies in philosophy, philosophic life of Lithuania in the early 20th century was inevitably dull. But the need for philosophical ideas was evident. In the discussions of the current processes of social stratification the enlightened public of the time developed and published various projects, opening new paths for the nation. These projects required philosophical understandings. The Lithuanian press of those days met the requirement by publishing philosophical articles. The Draugija, edited by A. Dambrauskas-Jakštas, was the most successful in this field. At that time propagation of philosophy was hard work, because its tools — Lithuanian philosophical terms and other semantic means — still had to be created. The enlightened public got over this hardship and showed that the language was suitable for expressing complicated philosophical constructions. Many of the terms, offered in the text-book of logic1 by Dambrauskas-Jakštas, were successfully chosen and still are used today. R. Bytautas may be considered one of the initiators of the Lithuanian philosophical language.
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