The humility of holy fools in Orthodox Christianity: On the problem of understanding (The Vita of Simeon the Holy Fool and The Vita of Andrew the Holy Fool)
This article analyses the problem of understanding the deeds of a holy fool in Russian Orthodox culture. Through considering the images of two “classical” saints – Simeon the Holy Fool ad Andrew the Holy Fool, the author emphasises the idea of humility as the dominant type of behaviour and the main personal characteristic thus objecting to S.A.Ivanov’s concept of aggression as the key typological feature of holy fools. The article also analyses images of saint in the anthropological and axiological ...
The Real Target of Kant’s “Refutation”
... Notes and Fragments. Translated by C. Bowman, P. Guyer and F. Rauscher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Longuenesse, B., 2008. Kant’s “I think” versus Descartes’ “I am a Thing that Thinks”. In: D. Garber and B. Longuenesse, eds. Kant and the Early Moderns. New Jersey: ...
The Nature of Appearance in Kant’s Transcendentalism: A Seman- tico-Cognitive Analysis
... of the International Workshop “Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy-3: nature (specificity) of transcendental philosophy” (Moscow, April 19—21, 2018). Moscow: Foundation for Humanities, pp. 36-48. (In Russ.)
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The Christian context of H. Ch. Andersen’s fairy tales: The confines of the genre
... certain type of ‘two-worldliness’, which is distinct from that of German romantics' fairy tales. Andersen’s fairy tales are distinguished by wholeness, the absence of a tragic rift, and the presence of characters embodying the Christian ideal of humility and sacrificial love.
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Analytic Work on Kant — Idealism, Things in Themselves, and the Object of Knowledge
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The example of humility: The life of St Nicholas the Bishop compiled by Symeon the Metaphrast
The image of St Nicholas in the translated Byzantine biography is analysed in order to identify the type of humble behaviour. The author examines the plot-based means of describing the character of the saint and comes to a conclusion about an equal combination of meekness and audacity in his humble behaviour, which is explained by the personal qualities of the saint and his feat.
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2. Иоанн Лествичник...
The motif of repentance and the features of the plot in Vladimir Monomakh’s “autobiography”
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Гумилев Л.
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Dorofeyeva L.G.
Old Russian literature, confession, confession-reflexion, repentance,
humility, plot, motif.
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