ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Russian religious philosophers’ studies in the fields of ontology, epistemology, and ethics were decisive in the development of anthropological research within the Russian philosophy formed on the basis of Christocentric trichotomy of spirit, soul and body, the unity of faith and reason, the idea of freedom and synergy. Analysing anthropological problems and posing questions about the meaning and the ultimate goal of human life Russian religious philosophers looked for ideological support in those sections of dogmatic theology where these questions were revealed most fully in terms of the “free spirit philosophy”. Despite some stylized form of theological beliefs, the idea of integral human was central for the Russian thinkers in their solving the problems of the transformation of human existence.