scholarly journals Problem of Intellectual Doubles in Contemporary Research of Russian History of Philosophy (an Example of Russian Narodism)

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
O. Marchevsky
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The paper enters contemporary discourse concerning the examination of history of Russian philosophy, which initiates a new reading of the Russian thinkers’ works. These contemporary examinations problematize the phenomenon of so called intellectual doubles as well. The contribution proceeds from the definition of these issues which was published in journal Problems of Philosophy (Voprosy filosofii) by M. A. Maslin in 2013. In this work, Maslin mentions A. I. Herzen among the examples of intellectual doubles phenomenon, who is one of the founders of the Russian Narodism. Following from this basis, the contribution shifts an attention toward issues of intellectual doubles in the context of the Russian Narodism. The work represents an endeavour to deepen the existing problematization of this phenomenon on the basis of examination the N. K. Mikhailovsky’s creative legacy. There can be found two faces in works of this Narodnik thinker. The first one can be figuratively designed as a Petersburgian and the second one as a Yaltian. These designations are borrowed from the notes of Sergey Elpatevsky, who had been Mikhailovsky’s friend. The two faces express the specificity of the problem of doubleness in Mikhailovsky and his qualitative shift in relation to contemporary examinations of the reflected phenomenon.

scholarly journals Russian Neo-Kantianism and Philosophy in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Pavel Vladimirov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Global Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Related Theme

Russian neo-Kantianismʼs status in the history of the development of Russian philosophy is an important, but poorly presented in scientific publications, issue is revealed in the article. With some exceptions, which are represented by a number of few, but informative and informative articles and a monograph, the problem remains without proper reception in the scientific discourse of our time. Russian neo-Kantianism, however, leaving aside the question of what is the phenomenon of Russian neo-Kantianism, it is impossible to productively and consistently actualize the content of Russian neo-Kantians and, moreover, to show their significance in the history of Russian philosophical and socio-humanitarian thought in general. Three key difficulties stand out: 1) the question of originality and the related theme of the independence of the philosophical direction (originality, independence and originality – differ from each other, but are united in their immanent orientation); 2) Russian neo-Kantianism, which in many ways seems to be the most difficult task for researchers engaged in historical and philosophical reconstruction; 3) the question remains ambiguous as to whether Russian neo-Kantianism is a continuation of the German tradition or whether it is a direction of Russian philosophy of thought. Russian neo-Kantianism, the three difficulties identified in the reception of the phenomenon of Russian neo-Kantianism taken as a whole, are consistently revealed in the content of the proposed article, supplemented by a brief overview of the most systemic positions of Russian philosophers, ranked among Russian neo-Kantianism. Overcoming the indicated difficulties, which undoubtedly affect the objective disclosure of the creativity of each representative of Russian neo-Kantianism or thinkers related to them, seems appropriate not only from the standpoint of the history of philosophy, but also for actualizing the heritage of philosophers in the conditions of modern socio-humanitarian pragmatics. Russian neo-Kantianism The author of the article suggests that one of the ways to overcome the ambiguity of the definition of Russian neo-Kantianism in the history of Russian thought may be, firstly, a more detailed consecration of the activities of Russian neo-Kantians in the historical and philosophical literature, and secondly, a comprehensive representation of this direction, including studies of individual personalities and their works. Despite the controversial and polemical nature of the task, its formulation is necessary for the objectivity of the meaning of Russian thought in the global context.

scholarly journals CONCEPTS OF “POSSIBLE” AND “NECESSARY” IN H. CRESCAS' SECOND BOOK OF “LIGHT OF THE LORD”

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
VALERIYA V. SLEPTSOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Divine Omniscience ◽  
Main Work ◽  
History Of

This paper analyzes the concepts of “possible” and “necessary” in the philosophy of the medieval Jewish-Catalan philosopher and theologian Hasdai Crescas. The main work of Crescas is named “Light of the Lord” (“Or-ha-Shem”). It is still not translated into Russian. The ideas of Crescas are not spread widely in the Russian philosophy of religion and in the Russian history of philosophy. Meanwhile, Crescas is one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, who proposed, in particular, his own concept of combining divine omniscience and human free will. He developed this concept in the fifth section of the second book of “Or-a-Shem”. It is obvious, that this concept cannot be understood without a detailed analysis of Crescas’ understanding of the categories of “possible” and “necessary”. As a result of the analysis, it is concluded that within the framework of the concept proposed by Crescas both categories are coexisting. Crescas demonstrated this proposition by both philosophical and exegetical arguments...

Lopatin, Lev Mikailovich (1855–1920)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall A. Poole
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Philosophical Language ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vladimir Solov'ev

In 1911 the Moscow Psychological Society celebrated the accomplishments of Lev Lopatin, a major Russian idealist and personalist philosopher. Lopatin was lauded for his chairmanship of the Psychological Society, the oldest learned society ‘uniting the philosophical forces of Russia’, and for his contributions to Russian philosophy: to the critique of positivism, to the development of Russian philosophical language and the history of philosophy in Russia, to the defence of idealism through his theories of ‘creative causation’ and the soul’s substantiality, to philosophical psychology, and to the strength and independence of Russian philosophic culture. Twenty-five years earlier the appearance of the first volume of Lopatin’s main work, Polozhitel’nye zadachi filosofii (The Positive Tasks of Philosophy), was indeed a milestone in the philosophical revolt against positivism and the development of Russian neo-idealism. In this and subsequent works Lopatin advanced his ‘system of concrete spiritualism’. His idea of the person as an ontologically grounded spiritual entity relates him to Leibniz’s monadology, and he is regarded as one of the main representatives of ‘neo-Leibnizianism’ in Russia, following Aleksei Kozlov. Another source of his ideas was his long-time friend the Russian religious philosopher Vladimir Solov’ëv, despite certain philosophical differences between them.

Duns Scotus on the Nature of Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-305
Author(s):  
T. Allan Hillman ◽  
Tully Borland ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

Duns Scotus has a remarkably unique and comprehensive theory concerning the nature of justice. Alas, commentators on his work have yet to full flesh out the details. Here, we begin the process of doing so, focusing primarily on his metaethical views on justice, i.e., what justice is or amounts to. While Scotus’s most detailed account of justice can be found in his Ordinatio (IV, q. 46 especially), we find further specifics emerging in a number of other contexts and works. We argue that Scotus offers a unique contribution in the history of philosophy: justice in God is a formality (formalitas), in humans a virtue, and when attributed to actions, a relation. Even though formalities, virtues, and relations are ontologically distinct items, each can satisfy Scotus’s preferred Anselmian definition of justice—rectitude of will preserved for its own sake—since each characterizes a will aimed at rendering to goodness what is its due.

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence and philosophical creativity: From analytics to crealectics

Human Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-607
Author(s):  
Luis de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
The Real ◽  
Analytic Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an “anthrobotic” horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here argued that the fantasised autonomy of automated intelligence presents a contradistinctive opportunity for philosophical consciousness to understand itself anew as holistic and co-creative, beyond the recent “analytic” moment of the history of philosophy. Here we introduce the concept of “crealectic intelligence”, a meta-analytic and meta-dialectic aspect of consciousness. Intelligent behaviour may consist in distinguishing discrete familiar parts or reproducible functions in the midst of noise via an analytic process of segmentation; intelligence may also manifest itself in the constitution of larger wholes and dynamic unities through a dialectic process of association or assemblage. But, by contrast, crealectic intelligence co-creates realities in the image of an ideal or truth, taking into account the desiring agent imbued with a sense of possibility, in a relationship not only with the Real but also with the creative sublime or “Creal”.

scholarly journals The Question of Aristotle Heritage Assembling in the Old Russian Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vladimirovna Ageikina
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rational Type

The study contains an assessment of Aristotle’s philosophy influence on the Old Russian Culture. Analyzing the philosophical legacy of the Stagirite, the author examines that his achievements were assimilated by the Old Russian culture. The con-cepts of cause, purpose, syllogism were assimilated by the Old Russian thinking as a result of transla-tions of the Stagirite texts. Aristotle’s doctrine of four reasons met the worldview needs of the Old Russian man. This led to the spread of literacy, the development of science, the assimilation of the dis-cursive schemes of Aristotle's philosophy and their application in practice. The assimilation of Aristo-tle’s heritage opened up a new layer of cognitive capabilities, which resulted in the formation of a rational type of thinking in the Old Russian culture. The study of Aristotle’s legacy influence seems to be timely for the Russian history of philosophy, since it allows refuting the thesis about the back-wardness of Russian culture. The results of the study can be used in the history of philosophy, the history of Russian culture, and philosophical com-parative studies.

Asmus, Valentin Ferdinandovich (1894–1975)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bakhurst
Keyword(s):  
Formal Logic ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Soviet Philosophy ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Standards ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Marxist Tradition

One of the most accomplished thinkers in the Soviet Marxist tradition, Asmus wrote extensively in many areas of philosophy, and was widely regarded as the Soviet Union’s principal Kant scholar. Early in his career, he became associated with the influential school of ‘dialecticians’ led by A.M. Deborin and produced a number of significant writings in the history of philosophy. When Deborin and his followers were condemned as ‘Menshevizing idealists’ in 1931, Asmus shifted the principal focus of his work to aesthetics and logic. His 1947 textbook of formal logic subsequently became the principal text for logic instruction in the USSR. Throughout his long career, Asmus experienced a number of political difficulties. Nevertheless, he avoided imprisonment and published consistently, though he was never permitted to go abroad. His importance in Russian philosophy derives not so much from the significance of his theories, but from his role in preserving philosophical culture in Russia through the Stalin period. He aspired to high standards of scholarship and worked hard to foster the study of logic and the history of philosophy. The breadth of his interests and his excellence as a teacher made him an inspirational figure to the young scholars striving to revive Soviet philosophy in the 1960s.

History of Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Kanke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century

The textbook is a sequential course in the history of philosophy. The history of philosophical innovations from antiquity to the present day is considered. The content of the philosophy of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Modern times, and the XIX century is presented. Special attention is paid to the main philosophical trends of the twentieth century, as well as Russian philosophy, including the Soviet period. The course is based on the achievements of modern science, as well as analytical philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, poststructuralism and other major philosophical trends of our time. The theory of conceptual transduction is used. It is intended for bachelors studying in the enlarged group of training areas 47.00.00 "Philosophy, Ethics and Religious Studies" and other training areas. It is of considerable interest to a wide range of readers interested in the development of philosophical knowledge.

Epistemology, history of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George S. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
The Third ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Genuine Knowledge

Epistemology has always been concerned with issues such as the nature, extent, sources and legitimacy of knowledge. Over the course of western philosophy, philosophers have concentrated sometimes on one or two of these issues to the exclusion of the others; rarely has a philosopher addressed all of them. Some central questions are: What is knowledge – what is the correct analysis or definition of the concept of knowledge? What is the extent of our knowledge – about what sorts of things is knowledge actually held? What are the sources of knowledge – how is knowledge acquired? Is there any genuine knowledge? Concern with the first question has predominated in philosophy since the mid-twentieth century, but it was also discussed at some length in antiquity. Attention to the second question seems to have begun with Plato, and it has continued with few interruptions to the present day. The third question was also important in antiquity, but has also been a central focus of epistemological discussion through the medieval and early modern periods. The fourth question raises the issue of scepticism, a topic which has generated interest and discussion from antiquity to the present day, though there were some periods in which sceptical worries were largely ignored. Various attempts to answer these questions throughout the history of philosophy have invariably served to raise additional questions which are more narrow in focus. The principal one which will be treated below can be stated as: (5) What is a justified belief – under which conditions is a belief justified? There has been but occasional interest in this last question in the history of philosophy; however, it has been a crucial question for many philosophers in the twentieth century.

Mut zurzeit

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Frank Ruda
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

"Der Beitrag verhandelt den Begriff des Muts und beginnt diese Verhandlung ausgehend von der Frage, wie eine Kategorie, die die Geschichte der Philosophie zu durchziehen scheint, gegenwärtig an Relevanz und Einfluss verlieren kann. Er identifiziert den Grund dafür in der aristotelischen Bestimmung des Muts als männlich-militärischer Tugend und setzt dieser Bestimmung in der Folge eine Neubestimmung entgegen, die zu denken versucht, was weiblicher Mut sein kann. The paper discusses the concept of courage, starting from the question of how it is possible that a category, which seems to permeate the history of philosophy, currently loses its relevance and influence. It identifies the rea- son for this in the Aristotelian definition of courage as a male and military virtue, and subsequently confronts it with a new definition, trying to imagine what female courage could be like. "

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