Education, science and religion in the Russian Enlightenment. In search of a compromise (Part II)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2019-8-205-217
Abstract
This article is a continuation of the publication placed in the RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. “Philosophy. Sociology. Art history” Series (2017, no. 4). The first part presented an analysis of the texts and events of the Russian 18th century in its relation to state guardianship, which extended to the Orthodoxy, education and science. In the second part, an attempt is made to show the metaphysical foundations on which the Russian Enlightenment, which carried out the reception of European rationality, was based. The metaphysics of Christian Wolf, adopted in Russia as a “university science”, according to the author, was the ideology of a compromise of the established science, the emerging educational system and the religious policy of the state.
About the Author
E. N. Ivakhnenko
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Eugene N. Ivakhnenko, Dr. of Sci. (Philosophy), professor
bld. 27/4, Lomonosovskii Av., Moscow, 119991
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Ivakhnenko E.N. Education, science and religion in the Russian Enlightenment. In search of a compromise (Part II). RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2019;(3):205-217. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2019-8-205-217
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