Tevzadze Guram

Tevzadze, Guram (b. 30.I.1932, Tbilisi), philosopher. Academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (1993; Corresponding Member since 1988), Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (1963), Professor (1970). He served as the Academic Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (from 1993) and as Vice-President of the Academy (2001–2013). He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Tbilisi State University (TSU) in 1954. He was a research fellow at the S. Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1957–1966), head of the Department of the History of Philosophy at the same institute (1966–1970), and head of the Department of the History of Philosophy at TSU (from 1971). He was a member of the editorial boards for the journals Georgika (from 1979) and Religia (from 1992). He authored several textbooks on the history of philosophy and engaged in extensive translation work (I. Kant, G. Hegel, M. Heidegger, N. Hartmann).

Tevzadze's primary research directions include the history of Georgian philosophy, classical German philosophy, and its influence on world culture. Within Georgian philosophy, he introduced the problem of the "Cappadocian Renaissance," as well as the problems of analogy and human destiny in the works of Ioane Petritsi. He offered a novel interpretation of the "system as an organism" in Kantian philosophy, defined the place of J. B. Schad within German Classics, and proposed a new definition of German Neo-Kantianism, as well as the problem of irrationalism as the self-criticism of reason.

Tevzadze participated in the III, V, and VII International Kant Congresses. He delivered a specialized course on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason at Moscow State University (1981) and a lecture series (on Kant, Hegel, and Hartmann) at Changchun University, China (1990). He led the philosophical summer school in Vilnius (1986). He was a member of the international editorial board of the journal Filosofskiy poisk (Vitebsk State University) (1996). He was awarded the Ivane Javakhishvili Medal (1998) and the Order of Honor (2002).

Literary works: გერმანული ნეოკანტიანობის შემეცნების თეორია, თბ., 1963; ნიკოლაი ჰარტმანის ონტოლოგიის კრიტიკა, თბ., 1967; იმანუელ კანტი, თბ., 1974; ანტიკური ფილოსოფია, თბ., 1995; შუა საუკუნეების ფილოსოფიის ისტორია, თბ., 2002; აღორძინების ეპოქის ფილოსოფია, თბ., 2008; ახალი ფილოსოფიის ისტორია, ნაწ. 1–2, თბ., 2009–12; Иммануил Кант. Проблемы теоретической философии, Тб., 1979.