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Konštantínove listy
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2018
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vol. 11
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issue 2
179 - 189
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The article attempts to trace inspirations by the culture of pre-Mongolian Rus’ in the works of father Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), a prominent philosopher of the Russian religious renaissance of the early XXth century. Relying upon Florensky’s writings, Old Russian literary artefacts and scholarly findings of medievalists (mainly art historians and philologists), the author seeks to highlight an important, albeit somewhat forgotten, source of Florensky’s philosophical teaching - the Christian cultural tradition of Old Rus’. Apparently, it is this tradition that played an essential role in Florensky’s development into an original philosopher, shaping fundamentals of the metaphysics of All-Unity which has been recognized as Florensky’s main philosophical achievement.
Konštantínove listy
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2018
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vol. 11
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issue 2
168 - 178
EN
Florensky’s philosophy examines the notion of truth and, at the same time, the thought of a personal being and transcendence in the context of original themes of Slavic thought. The Christian concept of the person significantly enriches the noetic understanding of truth by the means of the interpersonal relationship characteristic for the context of Slavic cultures. Florensky understands truth as an existential relationship with a deeper meaning, actualized in a dialogue with a personal God. The main tendencies of the Russian personalist philosophy are the presence of verticality in relation to the horizontal relationship (relationship of one person to another) and the effort to link transcendence with factuality on the basis of which Florensky establishes his concept of a personal being. Only very intense love can overcome the contradictions in human life. There is no unity, no freedom and no truth outside love. Genuine understanding of Truth can take place only in love and it is further conceivable in love only. Basic characteristics of human being (freedom, love) cannot be categorised by means of rational thinking. Human being cannot be defined in terms of reasoning. Man can only be understood by means of intuition and by means of revelation through the symbol.
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