Metodologia historii filozofii w ujęciu wybranych tomistów

Etienne Gilson relied his concept of doing history of philosophy on Thomistic metaphysics, so it enable him to distinguish between the proper history of philosophy and history of philosophical texts or history of philosophical doctrine; the former concerns philosophical problems disregarding their historical contexts. He referred to the way of studying history of philosophy, which was worked out by St. Thomas Aquinas as well as Aristotle and Alexandrian scholars before him, who were distinguishing between publication, understanding, interpretation and valuation of the text in text studying. Such history of philosophy allows not only to make synthesis within its framework, but also to pose a question on the adequacy of historical solutions of philosophical problems to real being; in that way history of philosophy becomes auxiliary and supporting science.