Book: History of philosophy. Page 1

The Slavophiles were characterized by an idealization of the historical past of Rus' (and in particular, pre-Petrine Rus'). They believed that Russian culture and political life were developing along their own path, different from the Western one. They associated the peculiarity of the historical path of Russia with the specificity of the Russian

Tyrannical rule corrupts the minds of the people.

We owe our entire civilization, everything that we are, to our monarchs.

Providence has created us too strong to be selfish, for it has placed us outside the interests of nationalities and entrusted to us the interests of humanity.

We have never walked together with other peoples, we do not belong to any of the great families of humanity, neither to the West nor to the East, we have no traditions of either one. We exist, as it were, outside of time, and the universal education of the human race has not touched us.

The laws are established by God, and man can only cognize and fulfill them. And only in blindness can a person consider himself the creator of any laws.

The illegal activities of the sovereign allow the people to judge him.

Peace captivity is still better than civil war.

Eternity is not a dream.

Lomonosov, admitting the creation of the world by God, believed that God no longer interferes in the affairs of nature, therefore Lomonosov was inclined to a materialistic explanation of nature.

Anything new quickly becomes boring, including the endless pursuit of novelty.

The further in time we are from the moment of creation of the text, the more accurate its interpretation we can obtain. Our current interpretations of the text are far from

The author gave birth to a text, which then lives its own independent life. The text, having become a cultural and historical fact, influences subsequent eras.

The presence of another robs me of my freedom in order to preserve my own.