Nikolai Lossky 1870 – 1965
Nikolai Lossky (1870 – 1965) was a Russian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Christian Philosophy.
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.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Christian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:
“Knowledge is the immediate presence of the object in the knower.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:
“The world is a whole, in which every part is internally related to every other.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:
“Personality is the bearer of metaphysical reality.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:
“Freedom is the creative source of the world's evolution.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:
“Reality must be intuited, not merely inferred.”
Nikolai Lossky by topic
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- Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher and the principal architect of the metaphysical position he called intuitivism.
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