Nikolai Chernyshevsky 1828 – 1889
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828 – 1889) was a Russian philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Political Philosophy and Continental Philosophy.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, and novelist and the most influential radical Russian thinker of the 1850s and 1860s. As editor of the journal Sovremennik, he became the leading voice of the new radical intelligentsia, and his novel What Is to Be Done?, written in prison after his arrest in 1862, shaped a generation of Russian revolutionaries, including the young Lenin. He spent more than two decades in Siberian exile and katorga. His Anthropological Principle in Philosophy and The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality articulated a robust materialism and a doctrine of rational egoism that he held would issue in social solidarity.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky:
“What is to be done? That is the question of every age.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky:
“Rational egoism, properly understood, leads to social solidarity.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky:
“Human nature is malleable; education shapes the citizen.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky:
“The future belongs to those who work for the people.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Chernyshevsky:
“Thought without action is sterile.”
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