Revolution as the sleep of reason: the total reduction of ideas

Kantor Vladimir
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In his article, the author poses the question, one of the most important for understanding the catastrophes of the twentieth century: how and why the sun of mind rolled over the world (as expressed by A. Koestler). The rejection of reason meant the rejection of the Christian pathos of life. Since the end of the nineteenth century, God, light and mind were not in favor across Europe. The light of reason was addressed to all people, but the elect who assimilated it were few. And then the whole history of mankind, we see with what incredible eff ort these chosen mobs pull to the light. In the twentieth century. there was a so-called ‘uprising of the masses’, accompanied by the destruction of Christianity and the elite, carriers of the mind. But this fall in ideas began with the Russian revolution of 1917. In an era when the world of Russia and the West broke, when after two monstrous wars everything was lost, when Auschwitz and Kolyma (where atrocities were happening that are possible only in horrible dreams) erased all the centuries-old attempts of humanism, when the monsters born from sleep of reason seemed to defeat the world forever, there was still a gap. As the Russian philosopher Fyodor Stepun wrote, Christianity called upon all of us, young and old, healthy and sick, rich in talents and poor in spirit, to such a great transfi guration of the world, before which the wildest dreams of a revolutionary reorganization of human life fall apart. Only this requires spiritual eff ort. But the elect have always been few. However, it is they who carry the light into the world.
革命是理性的睡眠:观念的彻底减少
在他的文章中,作者提出了一个问题,这是理解20世纪的灾难最重要的问题之一:心灵的太阳是如何以及为什么在世界上滚动的(正如A. Koestler所表达的)。拒绝理性意味着拒绝基督徒对生活的悲怆。自19世纪末以来,上帝、光和思想在整个欧洲都不受欢迎。理性之光是向所有人发出的,但被它吸收的选民却寥寥无几。然后纵观整个人类历史,我们看到这些被选中的暴民多么努力地走向光明。在二十世纪。有一场所谓的“群众起义”,伴随着基督教和精英,思想载体的毁灭。但这种观念的衰落始于1917年的俄国革命。在一个俄罗斯和西方世界崩溃的时代,在经历了两场可怕的战争之后,一切都失去了,在奥斯维辛和科雷马(那里发生的暴行只有在可怕的梦中才可能发生)抹去了几个世纪以来人文主义的所有努力,在一个从理性睡眠中诞生的怪物似乎永远击败了世界的时代,仍然有一个缺口。正如俄罗斯哲学家费奥多尔·斯蒂芬(Fyodor Stepun)所写的那样,基督教呼吁我们所有人,无论年轻还是年老,健康的还是生病的,才华横溢的还是精神贫乏的,都来参加这样一个伟大的世界变革,在此之前,对人类生活进行革命性重组的最疯狂的梦想都破灭了。只是这需要精神上的努力。但被选中的人总是很少。然而,是他们把光带到这个世界上。
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