Review article
Russian Philosophers on Their Own Philosophy. Few chapters from the original on the meaning of their philosophy
Slavko Platz
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Abstract
We will hereby state some chapters from the original works by Russian philosophers who discuss their own philosophy within the European context. They are the best to make the grade of the quality of their own philosophy. It is important to point out the period of exile of Russian philosophers all over Europe and the rest of the world. It seems that the element of exile contributed to their liberty.
Even before the October Revolution and their exile they had had some problems with philosophy in Russia, due to the fact that it has never been well accepted in that country, only within Church academies and intellectual circles. Philosophy was considered to be a western impostor, especially in the revolutionary year 1848, when Emperor Nicolas I, through his minister of education, S. Uvarov, labeled philosophy by his famous statement: “The benefit of philosophy is suspicious, and the damage it causes is certain”. In this article Vasilij V. Zenkovskij talks about secularism in Russian thought, Ernst L. Radlov on the main streams in Russian philosophy, Boris V. Jakovenko on specific features and value of Russian philosophy, Semjon L. Frank on characteristics of Russian religious
thought, and Nikolaj O. Losskij on development of Russian philosophy and its particulars. We’ll conclude with their favourite subject: Cognition of God in philosophical-theological discourse.
Keywords
Russian philosophy; cognition; intuition; mysticism; orthodoxy; secularism
Hrčak ID:
36307
URI
Publication date:
26.5.2006.
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