AXIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ORTHODOX AND PHILOSOPHICAL THEISM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF V.D. KUDRYAVTSEV-PLATONOV)

The article analyzes the transcendental method applied to the axiology of Russian religious philosophy on the example of V.D. Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s works. The author offers a description of the contradiction between the transcendental method in the form in which it was implemented in Platonism and Kantianism as variants of non-Christian philosophizing, and Orthodox theism. Platonism and Kantianism tried to justify such a variant of the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent, which can be called transcendentism. In axiological terms, transcendentism represents the sphere of values as something that belongs to a special world: in Platonism, the sphere of values is identical to the sphere of ideas; in the Kantian tradition, it is placed in the consciousness of a conditional transcendental subject. Both versions of philosophizing lead to the divorce of the spiritual and material principles of the world due to their abstraction, and not concreteness. The author concludes That V...