THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRITY IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS OF SLAVOPHILES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the key issue of slavophile
essays of 1830-1850s, to the question of the integrity
of the human knowledge, integrity of life itself. In the centre
of authors attention is the controversy between the founders
of slavophilism I. Kireyevsky and A. Khomyakov. Started
in 1839, the exchange of the polemic epistles, the dispute
went on and on. Both publicists try to reconcile the reason
and faith, scientifi c and intuitive knowledge. In the view of
both authors integrity is connected with the synthesis, but it is
understood in different ways. Explaining their views, they turn
to the ancient Russia and in its life to fi nd confi rmation of their
words. The uniqueness of the Russian, eastern education
they see in the absence of conquest, a special way of life, the
orthodox faith. Since Russia hadnt experienced the infl uence
of Greco-Roman world, it maintained the innermost meaning
of the life, the integrity of the spiritual and social life. The article
reveals the slavophile idea of true enlightenment, based
on the joining, the integrity of the spiritual and the material
beginning, scientifi c and intuitive knowledge. Basing on the
analysis of slavophile essays, the author concludes that the
synthesis, to which strived the slavophiles, supposed the double
knowledge of the world - the logical, scientifi c knowledge,
and the knowledge based on imagination, intuition.