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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1996

Pages: 83-108

Series: Studies in East European Thought

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Peter Ehlen, "A. F. Losevs personalistische ontologie", Studies in East European Thought 48 (1), 1996, pp. 83-108.

A. F. Losevs personalistische ontologie

Peter Ehlen

pp. 83-108

in: Studies in East European Thought 48 (1), 1996.

Abstract

A. F. Losev, one of the most important Russian philosophers and historians of ancient aesthetics and culture in the 20th century, develops in his "Dialectics of the Myth' (Dialektika mifa), 1930, a personalistic ontology by using elements of neoplatonic philosophy and Orthodox Christian belief. According to Losev reality in all its different expressions and ontological strata must be understood as "mythical", i.e. as "living mutual exchange of subject and object". The subjective and personal aspect of reality is not grounded in man's epistemic relation to it alone; reality in itself has to be characterized as personal and subjective. The main philosophical opponent is Descartes, the founder of "modern rationalism and mechanism".

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1996

Pages: 83-108

Series: Studies in East European Thought

Full citation:

Peter Ehlen, "A. F. Losevs personalistische ontologie", Studies in East European Thought 48 (1), 1996, pp. 83-108.