WHOLENESS AND LOGOS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF V. F. ERN

Abstract

The article deals with the views of the Russian religious philosopher V. F. Ern. The purpose of the article is to identify the criteria by which the Russian thinker opposed Logos to ratio in solving the problem of wholeness. The concept of Logos as an integral mind inextricable from the living reality is revealed in detail. The emphasis is put on the fact that in rational philosophy the reality is artificially divided into dead parts reduced to schemes and torn from the completeness of life. The peculiarity of Ern’s views is that the Whole becomes as such only if it is outside the world, beyond the limits of death and noumenal. Using historical, analytical, dialectical and systemic methods of research, the author comes to the conclusion that the interrelation of ideas of wholeness, Logos and immortality is the original theme of Ern’s philosophy. The theoretical and practical significance of the article lies in the fact that at present, in the era of social transformations and domination of postmodernism, the idea of integrity in ontology and epistemology becomes again very important because without this idea any historical projecting is impossible. The article is addressed to political technologists engaged in the formation of ideology in modern Russia.