Historical Prussia in the mirror of confessional relations
This article develops the concept of historical process being determnined by cultural phenomena. The cultural aspect examined by the author is religious beliefs. It is shown that Prussia constituted a region of intersection between ancient Prussian paganism rooted in the proto-Indo-European era and Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy. The interaction of these forms of ideology is used to explain the history of Prussia.
1. Батыр А. Сказание о литовском громовержце ...
What is a ‘rare’ language in translation? The experience of distance reading
This article examines the perception of ‘rare’ and ‘common’ languages through literary translations. The study is based on the materials from De Bezige Bij Publishing House in the Netherlands, comparing the periods of 2010—2013 and 2020—2023. A significant increase in the role of translators is reflected in the rise of translation share in the publishing house. There is an observed growth in the number of source languages for translation, with a decrease in the proportion of English...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... culture did not originally have a clear hierarchy of potential adversaries. For example, the first Polish chronicler Gallus Anonymus wrote in the early 12th century: ‘in spite of being surrounded by all the many aforementioned peoples, Christian and pagan alike, and frequently attacked by all and sundry, it has never been completely subjugated by anyone’ [19, p. 15]. Probably, at the time, all the neighbours were considered to pose an equal threat, which is obliquely evidenced by the descriptions ...
Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant on the Existence of God
... reason without turning to divine revelation, in reality God is the creator of this natural law and the cause of its perfection. Accordingly, faith in the true God in Wolff’s philosophy is obligatory for achieving the supreme degree of virtue, whereas pagans and atheists can achieve only its lowest degree. Kant criticises traditional proofs of the existence of God both in his pre-critical and critical periods. The author looks at the role God plays in Kant’s practical philosophy. Comparing the positions ...
Household items of the 13th—15th centuries from the necropolis of Alt-Wehlau
... centuries in necropolis of Alt-Wehlau situated in Prussian land Nadrovia. These items include razors, flints, whetstones, keys and comb that were common in everyday life of local population and were used as a part of burial inventory under the influence of pagan rite preserved until the 16th century. The study of items composition and morphology relied on the typological and comparative-historical methods that allowed to make following conclusions. Razors of type 1 and flints of types 1—4 were most frequently ...
Dialektik als Logik des Scheins. Zu Kants Lektüre von Michael Piccarts Isagoge
An unrecognised copy (1665) in Kant’s private library of Michael Piccart’s Isagoge (1605), an introduction to the system of Aristotelian philosophy together with Kant’s own remarks on this author (Refl 4160, AA 17, p. 439) can be established as an original source for the Kantian ‘ideosphere’. First, I point out contexts and consequences of Piccart’s Altdorfian Aristotelianism, in contrast to the Königsbergian Aristotelianism (emphasised by Tonelli’s research). To further check the...
Thematic parallels in the hagiographies of Adalbert of Prague and old Russian narratives
... staropolskich nazw osobowych. Część 1 : Odapelatywne nazwy osobowe / oprac. A. Cieślikowa przy współudziale J. Szymowej i K. Rymuta. Kraków, 2000.
Mayorov A. A.
Vyatko — Radim, Adalbert — Gaudentius, Christian martyrdom, missionary work among pagans, parallels of narrative plots, influence
78-86
Family ethics and philosophy of love in Kant’s Lectures on Ethics
... Kantovskiy sbornik, Kaliningrad, issue 2(44). 2013. P. 7—18.
7. Sudakov 2013b — Sudakov A. K. Obshcheniye liz: Kantova teoriya brachnogo prava v plenu yasycheskoy antropologii (Communion of persons: Kant’s theory of Matrimonial Law in the Grip of a pagan Anthropology) // Kantovskiy sbornik, Kaliningrad, issue 3 (45). 2013. P. 33—49.
8. Sudakov 2015 — Sudakov A. K. Triyedinyj soyuz: Semeynoye pravo Fichte na fone kantovskoy prakticheskoy filosofii (A triune community: Fichte’s Family Law on ...
Ideology of Armenian and Russian Orthodoxy in the mirror of ritual objects: khachkars and wayside crosses
... functions that these religious objects enable, first of all, the creation of a sacred milieu, unification of the Orthodox believer with God, and the formation of Orthodox memory. At the same time, it is noted that the Armenian khachkars are closer to pagan cultures in comparison with wayside crosses of the Eastern Slavs; the fact that can be conditioned by the cultural history of these peoples.
1. Абегян М. Х. История древнеармянской литературы. Ереван,...
Poetics of the ‘ideal’: The ancient and Christian tradition in K. N. Leontyev’s novel Odysseus Polychroniades
... Словарь античности / редкол. В. И. Кузиншин (отв. ред.) [и др.] ; cост. Й. Ирмшер в сотрудничестве с Р. Йоне ; пер. с нем. М., 1989. С. 665—666.
ancient traditions, paganism, Christianity, literary text, ‘ideal’ hero, K. N. Leontyev, Odysseus Polychroniades
Kunilskaya D.
35-44
The execution of Henry Monte and the Prussian motif of “double death”
... Ordens. Frаnkfurt-am-Main, 2008.
19. Rousselle M. Die Besiedlung des Kreises Preuβisch-Eylau in der Ordenszeit //Altpreuβische Forschungen. 1926. H. 2.
Novikov A.
«double death» rite, Henry Monte, Patollo, Potrimps, Balts, Teutonic Order, paganism.
118-122
The assessment of the antioxidant status of medicinal plants from the collection of the botanical garden of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad)
This article analyses the content of phenolic antioxidants and ascorbic acid in medicinal plants of 66 species from 31 families. The study identified palnt species with a maximum content of biologically active compounds (phenolic antioxidants and ascorbic acid) and high antioxidant activity. These plants can be used as a basis for the creation of innovative functional food products
that have high antioxidant activity.
1. Miliauskas G., Venskutonis P. R., Beek T. A. Screening of radical scavenging...
The communication of persons: Kant’s theory of marriage law held captive by pagan anthropology
The paper analyzes Kant’s philosophy of matrimonial law. It focuses on the idea of this law as “possession of a person as a thing and its use as a person”: Kant conceives marriage as an interpersonal relation in an external form of real possession, in the aspect of the objective and subjective goal of such relation, but primarily in the aspect of its legal and ethical possibility. Given the naturalistic interpretation of the constitutive act for this kind of law, the legal deduction of marriage...