Konstantin Antonov
Philosophical Rationality between Religion and Science: Russian Hegelianism at the End of the 19th Century
Konstantin Antonov - Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Aspects of Culture, Faculty of Theology, Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University of the Humanities (Moscow, Russia). konstanturg@yandex.ru
The article analyzes the "religion and science" problem as mapped out by two representatives of Russian Hegelianism in the end of the nineteenth century - Boris Chicherin and Pavel Bakunin. The analysis of relations between science and religion allowed both thinkers to articulate the most general grounds of their philosophical systems. The article outlines a number of important common features in interpretations and conclusions of both philosophers. For both, the struggle between "scientific" and "religious" worldviews seems to be a confrontation of the two forms of false consciousness. For both, philosophical rationality is the supreme arbiter in the conflict of religion and science. They outline a project of philosophical theology according to which God reveals Himself not in religious feeling but in reason, in the depth of self-consciousness. Overall, both thinkers give a solution typical for Russian metaphysics: by opposing both scientific and religious obscurantism, they hope for philosophical mediation in the case of reestablishing of balance of divergent spheres of cultural and spiritual life.
Keywords: religion, science, philosophical theology, Russian religious philosophy, Hegelianism, B. Chicherin, P. Bakunin, religious consciousness.
Статья подготовлена в рамках проекта "Современная западная психология религии: адаптация в российском контексте". Грант РНФ 14-18-03771. Адресат финансирования - Православный Свято-Тихоновский гуманитарный университет.
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