Volume 71, 2018
Russian Philosophy
Galina B. Svyatokhina
Pages 27-32
The Philosophy of Cosmic Thinking as Research and as a Life Style
The aspiration to understanding cosmos and man in it, has been an important element of philosophical research in different historical epochs, beginning from the times of Ancient East and West, up to the present time. But the problem of revealing the principle underlying Being which gives an opportunity to see the whole of the world as a single, organizing itself integrity as well as man’s place and meaning in it, remains actual. From the angle of cognizing such a principle of cosmic thinking and developing research methodology based on it, the holistic approach underlying the original Russian philosophy is in our point of view of considerable interest. Having an indissoluble connection with the world philosophical thought but shaped historically on the basis of the Russian spiritual culture, it found its most consistent and logical expression in the ‘Teaching Living Ethics’. Its specific character consists in the fact that it serves not only for forming a synthetic way of understanding the world, but, directing man to spiritual improvement or Transfiguration, contributes to a harmonious way of life and further cosmic evolution. To implement this methodology theoretically and practically it is important to cognize the algorithm of the dynamics of manifested Being springing from the Three-Hypostases Being of the Absolute.