The Reign and the Freedom. A Controversial Question in Peter Chaadaev’s Thought

Authors

  • Janna Voskressenskaia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1961

Keywords:

Peter Chaadaev, freedom, history, tradition, personhood, Church

Abstract

The proposed paper intends to analyze Chaadaev’s thought with a special attention to his view on Christianity fulfillment through time. The issue is to show incoherence of whatever thought willing to give shape to the authentic Christian sense of history without any regard to the concept of person and radical freedom connected to it. Chaadaev faces difficulties defining ethics and the value of human actions: if good actions are just the result of human submission to the Creator, than even the Bible is a mere Church product, a book written by men long time ago. In this perspective, Christian understanding of the tradition cannot be maintained.

Author Biography

  • Janna Voskressenskaia
    Janna Voskressenskaia – PhD student at Università Vita‑­Salute San Raffaele (Milan), a member of CRISI (Center of Studies on History of Ideas). Main interests: Russian philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion.

References

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Chaadaev P., The Philosophical Letters Addressed to a Lady, in: The Major Works of Peter Chaadaev, transl. R. McNally, Notre Dame 1969, p. 18–101.

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Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat‑­ii_const_19651118_dei‑­verbum_en.html.

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Zizioulas J., Communion and Otherness. Further Studies in Personhood and the Church, ed. by P. McPartlan, New York 2009.

Трубецкой E., Миросозерцание Вл. С. Соловьева, т. 1, Москва 1913.

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Published

2017-04-01

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