Russia's Plato

This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930.

Autorentext

Frances Nethercott is Reader in Modern European History at the University of St. Andrews, UK. She is the author of Russia's Plato: Plato and the Platonic Tradition in Russian Education, Science and Ideology, 1840-1930 (2000) and Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism (2007). She also serves on the editorial board of Studies in East European Thoughtand Intellectual History Review.

Inhalt

Introduction; The development of Plato scholarship in 19th century Russia: From an 'orthodox ethics' to the pragmatism of reform and counter reform; Compromise and conflict: the scientific community and the State; Developments in the historical and philosophical sciences: i.History of philosophy, ii.Trends in historiography; Russian Plato scholarship: The 'Plato question'; Plato and Russian idealism: the Platonic impulse in the construction of a philosophical tradition; From 'integral knowledge' to the 'ideal real': the Slavophiles and their successors; Plato, the 'father of idealism': i.'On the necessity and possibility of new principles in philosophy' (Ivan Kireevskii); ii.'Concrete idealism', (Sergei Trubetskoi); Plato as a contemporary of Kant: i.Kant and Plato in the theological academy; ii.Plato and Kant: the 'plus' and 'minus' in the European Philosophical tradition, (Pavel Florenskii); iii.Plato's doctrine of reason versus Kant's theory of experience, (Pamfil Iurkevich); iv.The neo-Kantian recovery of Plato; Plato as an impulse in Russian philosophy of law: Reforming justice in late imperial Russia; Teaching justice: between western science and domestic needs; Past philosophies for a contemporary science of law: Plato and Kant as two paradigms in juridical thought; i.Plato as a philosopher of natural law/justice; ii.Plato and/or Kant: duty versus the good; iii.Justifiying the common good: from subjective to objective ethics; iv.Between Plato and Kant; Law, society and the State; Russian liberalism: nostalgia for the ideal city?; Russians reading the Republic: Teaching the Republic; Interpreting the Republic; Confronting Western scholarship: 'classical' versus 'modernizing' trends; The actuality of the Republic: education and the woman question; i.Plato, the teacher (Nastoiashchii Uchitel'); ii.Sexual equality, solidarity, or a 'stud farm';? A question of Utopia-nism; i.Terrestrial Utopia; ii.Dis