Russian religious philosophy

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c. 1840 – 1950 · Eastern Europe & Russia · origin: Moscow

A search for integral knowledge in which faith, reason and life are inseparable

Key ideas

• The all-unity of the world (Solovyov)
• Sobornost: a free unity of people in love
• Freedom and creativity of the person (Berdyaev)
• The Slavophile–Westerniser debate over Russia's path
• Many thinkers carried on in emigration after 1922

Key thinkers

• Pyotr Chaadayev — Russian philosopher, 1794–1856
• Vladimir Solovyov — Russian philosopher and poet, 1853–1900
• Nikolai Berdyaev — Russian religious philosopher, 1874–1948

Grew out of

• German idealism c. 1781 – 1850 · Europe

What grew out of it

• Russian cosmism c. 1880 – 1950 · Eastern Europe & Russia

Meanwhile elsewhere

• Confucianism Asia
• Buddhist philosophy Asia
• Taoism Asia
• Nyaya Asia
• Madhyamaka Asia
• Yogachara Asia
• Chan and Zen Asia
• Advaita Vedanta Asia
• Kalam Middle East
• Neo-Confucianism Asia
• Utilitarianism Europe
• Positivism Europe
• American transcendentalism Americas
• Existentialism Europe
• Marxism Europe
• Pragmatism Americas
• Phenomenology Europe
• Analytic philosophy Europe
• Kyoto School Asia
• Structuralism Europe
• Logical positivism Europe
• Négritude Africa

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