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Andrea Oppo, PhD

Andrea Oppo, PhD. Remnants of a “Mid-land” The Russian Concept of Faith and European Philosophy. Edmund Husserl:. “The telos that was inborn in European humanity (i.e. being ‘ humanity ’ through philosophical reason ) has been lost ” (1935). OBJECTIVISM / SUBJECTIVISM.

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Andrea Oppo, PhD

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  1. Andrea Oppo, PhD Remnants of a “Mid-land” The Russian Concept of Faith and European Philosophy

  2. Edmund Husserl: “The telosthatwasinborn in Europeanhumanity (i.e. being ‘humanity’ throughphilosophicalreason) hasbeenlost” (1935)

  3. OBJECTIVISM/SUBJECTIVISM

  4. “If man loses this faith, it means nothing less than the loss of faith ‘in himself,’ in his own true being.” (E. Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences, part I, § 5)

  5. Universality of Reason (logos) [West] Vs. Universality of “True Being” (life) [Russia]

  6. Alexandre Koyré “[…] Il y manquait quelque chose; peut-être aussi y avait-il quelque chose de trop...” (La philosophie et le problème national en Russie au début du XIX siècle, p. 259)

  7. Russia and the West • P. Chadaaev • I. Kireevsky • A. Khomiakov • F. Dostoevsky • V. Solovyov • N. Berdyaev • M. Bakhtin

  8. Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) “Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone, No ordinary yardstick can span her greatness: She stands alone, unique – In Russia, one can only believe.”

  9. Faith • Verit’ [верить] = tobelieve, tohavefaith in • Vera [вера]= faith • Latin: Verus[Sources: Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch; Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch] • Indo-European root:*wer ("affection,” ”friendship”) (whichhasbeenkept in the Latin word "se-verus" i.e. “withoutaffection," in fact, “severe”)

  10. The “Russian” Truth Pravda Istina Affective truth What matters “to me” Religious and moral truth • Objective world • Common facts • Scientific truth

  11. St. Augustine (De Trinitate 13, 2-5) Fides quae Fides qua The Faith in which one believes In Latin: Crede mihi (dative of affection) • The object of belief itself In Latin: • Credere + accusative (object)

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