What is it about?
The article provides an analysis of the views of Russian thinkers on historical progress; the concepts of freedom-opportunity, freedom-necessity, time and space are explored. Comparing the western and domestic approaches to the formation of the so-called ”national idea”, the author formulates his own hypothesis of progress, based on the creativity of the Person as conciliar unity.
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Why is it important?
Russia is now fashionable to perceive either in a negative-political or in the infernal-messianic context, and both are imbued with deliberate pathos, which gives the image of national culture not even cheap, but fair look — bright one, like any colonial product offered for sale. We prefer to avoid the overly profitable work of myth-making and myth-debunking: let us try to figure out what is the notorious specificity, “mysteriousness” of the Russian soul and national historiosophy.
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I hope this will revive the interest to the Russian school of thoughts and to humanism in general.
Dr. Pavel Simashenkov
Samara State Medical University
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This page is a summary of: ABOUT RUSSIAN VERSION OF HISTORICAL PROGRESS, July 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.31124/advance.8796551.
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