Фил и Соф: диалоги о вечном и преходящем. Россия и Европа: борьба за веру

В статье в диалогической полемической форме обсуждаются причины современного усиления цивилизационных противоречий между «русским миром» и обществами, ориентированными на западный путь развития. Отталкиваясь от догматических оснований христианства и их социально-исторических метаморфоз, авторы пытаются найти корень противоречий между Россией и Западом и выработать самые общие основания их возможного преодоления.

Phil and Soph: Dialogues on the Immortal and the Perishable. Russia and Europe: Struggle for Faith

Understanding of metaphysical and civilizational grounds and origins of Russia-West relations is topical today more than ever before. Our article is a kind of classic form of dialogue between fictional characters; such genre is well-known since Antiquity. This form itself is a powerful methodological tool; it allows raising effectively several sharp questions and considering them comprehensively in philosophical reflection format. The subject of our philosophical reflection is metaphysical and religious matter of contemporary international policy. Using methodology of civilizational approach and philosophical metaphysics, in dialogical polemical form, we discuss the causes of current amplification of civilizational conflict between ‘Russian world’ and communities oriented to the western development path. In our article, we are appealing both to history and philosophy of history, and show it is a characteristic feature of Europeans to oppose themselves to Russian in all things. This juxtaposition seems surprising in light of the concept of Christianity as common foundations for both Western and Russian civilizational worldview. We conclude all forces of good will, both religions and secular societies should unite in the face of metaphysical evil for spiritual battle against it. So, based on dogmatic grounds of Christianity and their socio-historical metamorphoses, as well as on Russian and Western religious and philosophical heritage, we try to find the roots of the contradictions between Russia and the West (which are secular society’s preference for wealth instead of God, and political elites’ sins of disunity and covetousness), and to work out the most common recommendations for their possible overcoming.