THE SYNTHESIS OF MYSTICISM AND RATIONALISM AS A PARADOX OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University January 1, 2020 Mikoshiba Michio, Y. Bondareva 3 citations
Russian religious philosophers, including V. Solovyov, P. Florensky, S. Bulgakov, and N. Lossky, did not simply oppose mystical experience to rational thinking but combined both into a paradoxical unity. They argued that rational and empirical knowledge, which underlies science, is insufficient. Based on the idea of total unity (vseedinstvo), they proposed obtaining pure, undifferentiated, and existentially reliable knowledge through religious experience. The study of this methodological layer can expand the conceptual framework for religious and philosophical knowledge and help understand the development of modern science.