The fact that spiritual development is needed both on an individual and social level issue all traditional societies were acquainted with. laic materialistic contemporary world a mere historical, de-ontologized background which, while promoting individualism competition, puts aside the trans-historical values, have always defined man as humane human being, either in religion, or culture. This p...

In Soviet times, Boleslav Markevich's novel trilogy was unconditionally considered to be among the most orthodox anti-nihilistic works. However, already contemporary author, conservative criticism nihilists artistically weakest heroes of this trilogy. What is in centre narrative, historical fate Russian nobility, which suffered a crushing defeat during “great reforms” 1860s, rather than nihilis...

Fichte assigns ‘intellectual intuition’ a new meaning after Kant. But in 1799, his doctrine of intellectual intuition is publicly deemed indefensible by Kant and nihilistic Jacobi. I propose to defend Fichte’s against these charges, leaving aside whether it captures what he calls the ‘spirit’ transcendental idealism. do so articulating three problems that motivate redirection from being acting:...