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Angelology in the Russian intellectual history. Several pages

https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-1-22-35

Abstract

Reflections on the nature of angels in Russian religious philosophy are inseparable from political theology and reflection on scientific and technical achievements. Based on the works of N. Boldyrev, A. Losev and S. Averintsev, the article proves that the doctrine of angels was to spiritualize technical progress and not less to preserve humanitarian culture in the field of symbolic-mathematical speculation. Therefore, Russian angelology is dialogical and controversial: it relies on the hermeneutics of a symbol, while symbolism is considered as part of intellectual production parallel to technical invention. It is proved how exactly the reception of ideas related to the parameters of perception and a certain style of intellectual reasoning made it possible to single out questions about angels into a separate area of philosophical problematization. Accordingly, the study of how exactly the questions were thought of as autonomous, makes it possible to clarify how Russian thought could assert the autonomy of orders of philosophical reasoning.

About the Author

A. V. Markov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

Aleksandr V. Markov, Dr. of Sci. (Philology).

Bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125993



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Markov A.V. Angelology in the Russian intellectual history. Several pages. RSUH/RGGU BULLETIN. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies. 2021;(1):22-35. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2021-1-22-35

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