The destiny of Russian philosophy and modernity. Worldview aims and their influence on the historical and philosophical process. Part II

Abstract

This article is a continuation of “The Destiny of Russian philosophy and modernity. Transformations of values and transformation of models. Part I.” Both parts are united by an attempt to consider the phenomenon of Russian philosophy as a dispositive connecting such components as “the Russian idea,” the specific relation to metaphysics, and a choice situation between knowledge and belief. If the first part mainly considered the pre-revolutionary period, the second part considers the Soviet and Post-Soviet periods. Russian philosophy of the Soviet period, voluntarily or not, reproduced the dispositive of the messianism and isolationism of the Russian idea. After the opposition of dialectics characteristic of the Soviet period, and metaphysics during the Post-Soviet period, Russian philosophy moves the discussion of the nature of metaphysical knowledge to the sphere of journalism. As for the third element of the dispositive — understanding the choice between belief and knowledge — its originality is that in Russian philosophy, the choice of contrasts is impossible. In general, an examination of the basic elements of the dispositive in Russian philosophy confirms the existence of these elements in all three stages of the history of native philosophical thought. Such important historical and philosophical questions, such as the question of the nature of modal communications between these elements and the question of the nature of relations of power that caused the emergence of this dispositive and supported its existence in changing historical and cultural circumstances, are left out of the field of discussion. Nevertheless, it is possible to confirm the hypothesis of the existence of Russian philosophy as uniform historical whole.