Antinomism in Twentieth-Century Russian Philosophy: The Case of Pavel Florensky

Moore, Harry

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“…This thinking made Florensky part of the so-called 'Russian Religious Renaissance' after the 1917 revolution (Moore 2020). The heart of their thinking was that reality is essentially contradictory or an unavoidable 'antinomy'.…”

Section: Nature In Orthodox Christianitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The logic of antinomy in religious discourse: Pavel Florensky’s meta-language of theology, science and art

Buitendag

Puglisi

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky is a towering figure of the 20th century. He is recognised among many significant thinkers of the world’s cultural and philosophical panorama of the previous century. In the face of cultural repression and religious persecution of the Soviet regime, he preferred martyrdom to exile and not to deny his faith. The legacy of Florensky is incredibly multifaceted. His works span across the most varied fields of science and knowledge with clear competence. Florensky was the first scholar who attempted to combine Orthodox theology with modern logic. He argued that religious truth transcends known categories and Christianity tends to be antinomical. This article argues that a paradoxical notion would be more appropriate than antinomy in his thinking.Contribution: The authors introduce Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky to Western theology and share some thoughts of this much-neglected scholar. The focus is mainly on the spiritual vision of this Orthodox priest-scientist about Nature, exploring his legacy in the theology and science debate. Florensky taught us that there is a distinctive trait of the Christian faith’s attitude to Nature and that there always lies a surplus of meaning that remains inaccessible to reason alone and, therefore, Nature should be approached fundamentally with a contemplative approach and regarding a theology and science resonance, a creative mutual interaction could materialise.

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Section: Nature In Orthodox Christianitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The logic of antinomy in religious discourse: Pavel Florensky’s meta-language of theology, science and art

Buitendag

Puglisi

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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“…As has been noted in a recent study, an 'antinomian disposition', or 'philosophical and theological dependence on unavoidable contradiction, paradox or "antinomy"' was a self-conscious element of the work of a good number of twentieth-century Russian thinkers. 31 Yet Russian philosophy will perform an inversion of the relation between reason and antinomy that characterises, say, the thought of Kant. For the latter, antinomies occur in extremis.…”

Section: Language and The Limits Of Thought In Twentieth-century Russian Religious Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sergii Bulgakov’s Linguistic Trinity*

Heath

2021

Modern Theology

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As the work of Sergii Bulgakov has become more widely available in English, his Trinitarian theology has become a subject of particular interest. This article analyses his less well-known works on the Trinity from the 1920s, arguing that the understanding of Trinitarian doctrine developed there is inseparable from Bulgakov's analyses of language and consciousness. By analysing Bulgakov's approach to the Trinity via language, this article will draw particular attention to his negotiation of the notion of divine transcendence. We will see that Bulgakov's writings on the Trinity display, contrary to received opinion, a deep apophatic tendency, or recognition of divine transcendence. But we will also see that his more thoroughly linguistic approach to the Trinity, in which divine transcendence flows from what it means for God to be Love, contradicts his explicit discussion of divine transcendence elsewhere as a transcendence of the Father alone. 2 Among his untranslated texts, I focus chiefly on 'Chapters on Trinitarity' (first published in two parts in 1928 and 1930). A recent critical edition of the Russian text can be found in Sergii Bulgakov, 'Glavy o troichnosti', in idem, Trudy o troichnosti, ed. Anna Reznichenko (Moscow: O.G.I., 2001), 54-180. (Henceforth GT). I also discuss his Tragediia Filosofii (written in 1920-21), which has recently received an English translation: The Tragedy of Philosophy, trans. Stephen Churchyard (Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press, 2020). (Henceforth TP). For an extended discussion of this work and a critical review of the recent translation, see my 'On Sergii Bulgakov's

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German idealism and the early philosophy of S. L. Frank

Moore

2022

Stud East Eur Thought

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This study argues that the early philosophy of Semyon Liudvigovich Frank (1877–1950) exhibits significant intellectual correlations with nineteenth century German Idealist philosophy. The idealists in question are Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796–1879), G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831) and F.W.J. Schelling (1775–1854). It will be suggested that the critical tension of Frank’s early philosophy is precisely a tension between his Hegelian and Schellingian tendencies. The paper will first introduce Frank’s theory of a “personal absolute”, exploring its surprising parallels with the religious philosophy of I. H. Fichte. The analysis then addresses the self-dispersal of Hegel’s absolute, before finally turning to Schelling’s immediate intuition of subject-object identity.

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Antinomism in Twentieth-Century Russian Philosophy: The Case of Pavel Florensky

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

The logic of antinomy in religious discourse: Pavel Florensky’s meta-language of theology, science and art

The logic of antinomy in religious discourse: Pavel Florensky’s meta-language of theology, science and art

Sergii Bulgakov’s Linguistic Trinity*

German idealism and the early philosophy of S. L. Frank

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