Russian thought, or "independence of man." Philosophical essays. Kantor V.K.

In his new book, Vladimir Kantor, writer, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Head of the International Laboratory of Russian-European Intellectual Dialogue, considers one of the most important philosophical problems of Russian thought, the problem, using the word of Pushkin, "Independence of man." As Chernyshevsky believed, from a person who shy in a “orderly hut” one cannot expect spiritual independence. Russian philosophy, growing from the elements of community, where a person was very limited in his rights and capabilities - economic, economic and political - was looking for the foundations for independent. Community gave rise, on the one hand, the arbitrariness of power, on the other hand, the demons of radical circles, who woke up the arbitrariness of the Pugachev region. The worst thing happened, the chaos of madness defeated the mind. The XX century came, the era of magical, the era of pagan irrationalism, limitless dictatorships, when the idea was replaced by a word-prison that gave power over the masses that entered history. As G.P. Fedotov, the return to the world of freedom is possible only when the mind returned to the mind of his driver’s position as part of spiritual nature. The image, the usual antiquity: the mind is a driver who controls the chariot of passions. Strictly speaking, the thesis of B. C. Solovyov that Christianity is the triumph of the mind in the world was the credo of Russian thought, which fought for the independence of man. The topic of reason in Russian culture is the problem of the book proposed to the reader.

The author prepared this book for his anniversary, believing that 75 years is an important date.

in the application, he publishes several articles Russian researchers about their scientific work printed in periodicals.