Authors
- Mapelman Valentina Mikhailovna Doctor of Philosophy, professor
Annotation
The term «cosmism» is currently a conventional designation of a tradition that has become widespread in modern Russian philosophy. The article discusses the reasons
for the appearance of this concept, analyzes its basic terminological versions, initial content features, discusses the need for philosophical knowledge in it, the circumstances that led to a variety of interpretations. Particular attention is paid to the idea contained in it of the animateness of the entire Universe, its permeation with life, and in this regard, the inevitability of human settlement outside our planet, which should focus attention on solving the problem of the prospects for the development of civilization, which required its consolidation with a special term at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russian philosophers and modern
proponents of Russian cosmism, as well as philologists’ research on the introduction of the term «cosmism» into scientific and linguistic circulation are evaluated. The interpretation of the concept of «cosmism» in the work of Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky «Religion and Socialism» is specially considered (the first mention
of the term «cosmism» among the established sources of its use). The fundamental differences between the two approaches to the description of the world in ancient philosophy (the basic one for cosmists), which were subsequently fixed in terms of «anthropocentrism» and «cosmism», are qualified. The degree of success and persuasiveness of attempts to bring them closer together and even unite them is assessed. The way of transformation of the content of the term «cosmism» from extremely conservative to dynamically progressive is traced.
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Mapelman, V. M. (2023). MEANINGFUL METAMORPHOSES OF THE TERM «COSMISM» IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, №1 (45), 8. https://doi.org/10.25688/2078-9238.2023.45.1.1
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