EVOLUTIONARY AND CREATIVE PICTURES OF THE EARTH GENESIS IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PHILOSOPHY
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7227-2022-4-32-42
Abstract
Aim. To analyze the features of the development of Russian philosophical cosmology in the 20–21st centuries. To substantiate the thesis that the common motive turned out to oppose to the mechanistic picture of the world, but from different positions – dialectical materialism and Christian energyism, spontaneous evolutionary or rational Intent to explain the unity of the universe, the origin and development of the Earth.
Methodology. Three stages of Russian philosophical cosmology have been studied: the classical period of the end of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century, the Soviet philosophy of geology of the 80s, and the post-Soviet philosophical thought.
Results. The author substantiates the thesis that in the indicated directions, the data of natural sciences are interpreted differently depending on worldview positions. But it is precisely the tradition of Orthodox energytism in Russian philosophy, overcoming the reductionism and naive realism of the mechanistic approach of dialectical materialism that corresponds to the latest scientific conclusions about the impossibility of the accidental emergence of life and mind.
Research implications. The continuation and development in the post-Soviet philosophy of the tradition of Orthodox energytism of Russian classical philosophy makes it possible to see the consistent unity of the scientific and religious pictures of the world in explaining the uniqueness of the Earth in the Universe, to emphasize the special value and meaning of human existence.
About the Author
E. V. Alyokhina
Moscow Region State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgenia V. Alyokhina – Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Assoc. Prof., Department of Philosophy
ul. Very Voloshinoy 24, Moscow 141014, Moscow Region
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