HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY AS AN EVENT OF TRUTH
HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY AS AN EVENT OF TRUTH

Summary/Abstract: Russian philosophy as an independent and unaided tradition emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. The 19th century marked the golden age of Russian literature and critical tradition, and the basis of further development of ethical and aesthetic researches were formed the writers. It seems that Russian writers were deeper and more original thinkers than all of the university professors of metaphysics at the time. Philosophy in Russia was not an academic science: it was originally created mainly by critics, publicists and writers, and not by naturalists, technician and scientists. Philosophical departments at the universities were too unstable: sometimes they were forbidden and were opened for some terms. Philosophical books in Russia, for the most part, were written for the educated people and not for the experts in metaphysics. Contrary to European metaphysics, where aesthetics was secondary in relation to ontology and epistemology, the last discipline in total intellectual systems (like in Hegel) or rather supplementary philosophical discipline, aesthetic outlook was the beginning of philosophy in Russia. And it stays to be the basic and central philosophical discipline in Russia during the XX-th century also. Philosophy in Russia was a practice, even when it seems to be mystical one, it was always not only a theory and world-outlook, but world-practice. Although American pragmatism were never recognized in Russia, pragmatic orientation of Russian philosophy is one of the main its features. It could be explained by an influence of Karl Marx, whose ideas were very popular both in Russian Empire and in Soviet Union

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