Freedom of thought and expression in Eurocommunist philosophy

Nemeth, Thomas

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“…Similarly, the celebrated historian of philosophy, Dmitry Chizhevskii (1894–1977), wrote in 1939 that Frank's first major work, The Object of Knowledge , was ‘the most significant work of Russian philosophy in recent decades’ (Chizhevskii, 2007, p. 381) 3 . Indeed, a more recent review reminds us that the Object of Knowledge ‘reveals many problems yet to be resolved by serious contemporary philosophy’ (Nemeth, 1986, p. 271). Such problems include the question of idealism or realism, the relation of parts to wholes, the conditions for the possibility of inference, the nature of number and the relation of universals with particulars.…”

Section: Semyon Frank's Life and Workmentioning

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The Russian Cusanus: S. L. Frank and the Russian reception of Nicholas of Cusa

Moore

2023

The Philosophical Forum

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During the intense philosophical and theological renaissance of the Russian Silver Age, the German Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) received a unique appraisal in the work of Semyon Liudwigovich Frank (1877–1950), hailed by some as ‘the greatest Russian philosopher’. This paper will show that five of Frank's central philosophical arguments can be traced directly to Cusa's writings. Once these key arguments are taken together with Frank's own comments about Cusa, it can be concluded that Frank saw himself as Cusa's modern successor, presenting his ideas in a different intellectual context. In this sense, we can speak of Frank as the ‘Russian Cusanus’. The arguments in question include Cusa's docta ignorantia, our knowledge of being, the recognition of absolute being as ‘non‐other’, the identity of possibility and actuality in the absolute, and finally the coincidentia oppositorum.

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Section: Semyon Frank's Life and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Russian Cusanus: S. L. Frank and the Russian reception of Nicholas of Cusa

Moore

2023

The Philosophical Forum

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Freedom of thought and expression in Eurocommunist philosophy

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The Russian Cusanus: S. L. Frank and the Russian reception of Nicholas of Cusa

The Russian Cusanus: S. L. Frank and the Russian reception of Nicholas of Cusa

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