Георги Флоровски и „евразийската съблазън“
Georgi Florovski and the “Eurasian Temptation”

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with some fundamental aspects of the rich creative heritage of Georgi Florovsky, one of the remarkable Russian emigre scholars. Florovsky’s name is associated not only with the creation of one of the most interesting currents in Russian philosophical and socio-political thought of the 20th century – Eurasianism, but also with the attempts to the dethroning. In this connection are analysed some of the basic ideas of Eurasianism and Florovsky’s historical conception which in the ultimate analysis led him to the camp of his adversaries. According to this conception cause-and-effect links should not be sought in the past but the spiritual and intellectual experience of the people should be revealed since it was precisely in the individual creative fact that the freedom of man’s spirit was revealed. Florovsky saw the principal cause for the failure of Eurasianism namely in the adoption of the organic outlook, in the narrow and wrong interpretation of history within the limited framework of naturalistic morphology. In his view every conception based on the morphological approach chained people to the laws of historical necessity in which he believed that the essence of any utopianism rested.

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