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The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility
... functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in so doing acts as a standard for morality. More precisely, the following argument is made: 1) the sublime nature of the image of Christ — as an image of universal respect for the law — awakens the moral feeling of subjects in the sense of the possibility of overcoming one’s perverted nature; 2) as moral perfection it provides immediate transparency to the end goal of morality; ...
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Kants Jesus
This article considers the correlation between the historical Christianity and the pure religion of reason, the figure of the biblical Christ of Nazareth and Kant's interpretation of his personality. The author focuses on the question, whether the Biblical Christ, as a real historical person, is the personification of the idea of the absolute good and moral perfection.
1. Кант И....
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The functioning of the vladyka lexeme in the Ostromir Gospels of 1056—1057
This article considers the use of the Vladyka lexeme to denote God the Father, Jesus Christ, and human rulers in the Ostromir Gospels with a Greek translation. The author analyses the semantics of the Church Slavonic lexemes as an equivalent to the paired Greek words, the way the matching Greek lexemes were selected, and the effect of ...
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Teachings of Prince Vladimir in the contemporary discourse of the “Mystery of Iniquity”
... significance of a change of heart and mind of Prince Vladimir, the "miracle of miracles" (Metropolitan Hilarion), which despite all the internal and external hardships of Russia, still reflects its main essence — faithfulness to the Law of Christ.
1. Карташёв А. В. История Русской Церкви. М., 2006. Т. 1.
2. Митрополит Иларион. Слово о законе и благодати // Повести Древней Руси. М., 2002. С. 11—44....
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The child that is «not of this world» in Sergey Snegov’s novel Humans as Gods
The novel by the famous Soviet science fiction writer is analysed in the context of evangelical allusions and connotations. Biblical references in the text suggest a link between one of the main characters, the boy Astr, and the image of Christ. Although well in line with the anthropology of enlighten-ment, the idea of the salvation of the universe, which is central to the plot of the novel, and the image of the saviour, the child that is ‘not of this world’, are counterposed to Christian ...
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Don Carlos by F. Schiller in the translation of A. Mickiewicz and in the context of the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoevsky
... Improvisation» by A. Mickiewicz and the legend of The Great Inquisitor by F. Dostoevsky. It is shown that F. Dostoevsky reduces the ideology of freedom and power, typical of F. Schiller and A. Mickiewicz, to the Evangelical archetype of the three temptations of Christ and the choice between freedom and power — to a metaphysical dispute about the human soul.
1. Кибальник С. А. «Легенда о Великом инквизиторе» Ф. М. Достоевского и «Дон Карлос» ...
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Spiritual Ascension in the Icons and Vitae of Female Martyrs: the Collection of the Rybinsk Museum and Preserve
... that the icons of Paraskevi the Great Martyr from the collection of the Rybinsk museum and preserve differs from the copy of the vita included in the 17th-century manuscript held at the museum.
1. Gnutova, S. V., 1994. Instruments of the Passion of Christ on the russian crosses of XVII—XX centuries. In: Filevskie chteniya. Vyp. V. Materialy III nauchnoi konferentsii po problemam russkoi kul'tury vtoroi poloviny XVII — nach. XVIII vv., Moskva, 8—11 iyulya 1993 [Filevsky readings. Issue. V. ...
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The Soteriological Aspect of the Murals in the Kaliningrad Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
The article explores the main principles behind modern church paintings. The author examines the key factors affecting the structure of mural paintings and pays special attention to their semantic content. The main objective of the analysis is to identify means of expressive visualisation of the Divine Oeconomy, which is the semantic fundamental of the murals’ iconography. The author employs the methods of iconographic and iconological analysis correlating with the objectives of the study. It is...
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Intellektuelle Anschauung und philosophische Schwärmerei. Kant und die Aufklärung des philosophierenden Subjekts
... intellectual intuition is invalid for Kant but central for enthusiastic philosophical positions, philosophical enthusiasm is not merely a threat for his project of enlightenment — it is the ‘death of all philosophy’ (“Tod aller Philosophie”).
1. Christ, K. 1988, Jacobi und Mendelssohn. Eine Analyse des Spinozastreits, Würzburg.
2. Cramer, K. 1985, Nicht-reine synthetische Urteile a priori. Ein Problem der Transzendentalphilosophie Immanuel Kants, Heidelberg.
3. Dörflinger, B. 1988, Die Realität ...
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The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries
... reading). In: O. V. Tvorogov, ed. Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury [Works of the Department of Old Russian Literature]. Vol. 56. St. Petersbourg. pp. 428—452 (in Russ.).
About the Law, through Moses given, and about Grace and Truth through Jesus Christ revealed, and as the Law departed, but Grace and Truth filled the whole earth, and faith in all nations spread, and reached our Russian people. And praise our prince Vladimir, whom we were baptized. And prayer to God from all our land, 1997. In: ...
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On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part I
... Moral Character. The Critical “Link” of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Novyy Zavet Gospoda nashego Iisusa Khrista na slavyanskom i russkom yazykakh [The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ in Slavic and Russian]: 1893. 4th edition. Sankt-Peterburg: Synodal’naya tipografiya.
O’Malley, J., 1991. Die Wurzeln der Freiheit als politische Gesinnung im subjektiven Geiste. In: F. Hespe, B. Tuschling, eds. 1991. Psychologie und Anthropologie ...
