SOCIOCULTURAL AND SOCIOHISTORICAL ROOTS OF ADDRESSING THE ISSUES OF FAMILY AND MARRIAGE BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS AND ACADEMIC THEISM AT THE END OF THE 19th - EARLY 20th CENTURIES

Abstract

Aim. The article is concerned with the study of socio-cultural and socio-historical conditions that brought the representatives of Russian religious and academic theism of the late 19th - early 20th centuries to the discussion of «family issue». Methodology. The author, based on research and archival materials, analyzes the conditions for the transformation of the traditional Russian family, describes the main points of discussion on family and marriage in the Russian society of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, determines the reasons for the involvement of the representatives of Orthodox philosophy in this discussion. The research is based on the principles of historicism and consistency and uses the method of materialistic dialectics. Results. The author concludes that the socio-cultural changes caused by the development of capitalist relationships in the Russian Empire caused the need for Orthodox philosophers to address the problems of family and marriage, to rethink them at the ideological and philosophical levels. Research implications consist in the analysis of archival documents and publications on the problems of family and marriage in the Russian philosophy of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Тhe article is addressed to researchers engaged in the history of Russian spiritual and academic philosophy.