Фил и Соф: диалоги о вечном и преходящем. Диспут о пантеизме и трансцендентизме

Предмет данного диалога – кардинальные метафизические понятия: пантеизм и трансцендентизм. В форме беседы рассматриваются основополагающие философские проблемы, обсуждаются различные мировоззренческие типы (теизм, пантеизм, материализм) и их влияние на социально-политическую жизнь: связь с политическими идеологиями прошлого (большевизм, нацизм) и современности (либеральная демократия). Христианство актуализируется как непреходящий источник всех социальных метаморфоз. Религиозно-философский и социально-политологический материал излагается в духе известного сборника статей «Вехи» (1909), но в диалогической остро-дискуссионной форме.

Phil and Soph: Dialogues of the Eternal and the Transitory. Dispute on Pantheism and Transcendentism

Fundamental metaphysical issues are discussed here in the form of conversations; different types of worldviews and their impact on the sociopolitical life, including their connection with the political ideologies of the past (Bolshevism, Nazism, etc.) and the present (liberal democracy) are considered. Christianity actualized here as imperishable source of all social metamorphoses. Religious philosophical and sociopolitical materials are presented in the spirit of the famous anthology of Russian philosophers titled Vekhi (Landmarks) (1909), yet formulated as discussions, sometimes frank and unprejudiced; as a result, the authors draw certain conclusions to be evaluated by the readers. Particular attention is drawn to the ideological foundations of opposition movements, which often prefer ungrounded captiousness to creative activity. An attempt to formulate the crucial fundamentals of positive ideology, which is essential to the Russian society, is taken. The object of their attention is the relation between metaphysics and morality. Phil and Soph, dialogical characters, turn to the elucidation of the circumstances that have contributed to the present-day global challenges and draw the conclusion that the profound causes of the crisis can be found in the destruction of the basic principles of morality, which must have ontological and metaphysical foundations to be effective. Extensively involving vast culturological, historical, and philosophical materials, the authors tend to demonstrate and prove the necessity of transcendent foundations for morality, which were discovered already in the “axial time” yet are lost by modern man and society.