Nikolai Lossky 1870 – 1965

Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher and the principal architect of the metaphysical position he called intuitivism. A professor at St. Petersburg before the Revolution, he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922 with the Philosophers' Ship and spent the rest of his life in Czechoslovakia, France, and the United States. The World as an Organic Whole and Freedom of Will defended a personalist metaphysics in which the world is a concrete unity of substantival agents and knowledge is the immediate presence of the object in the knower. His History of Russian Philosophy remains a standard reference work.