Levo Karsavino teologinė metafizika oralumo ir rašto perskyros kontekste
Lev Karsavin‘s Theological Metaphysics: between Orality and Literacy

Summary/Abstract: Lev Karsavin‘s teological metaphysics is based on the late Medieval thinker Nicolaus Cusanus concept of coincidentia oppositorum. This principle means the whole and its parts, unity and multitude („or the whole, or the part“) is conceived not as contraries but as the unity of contraries („and the whole, and the part“). The whole is participated in each its part and each part is the whole at the same time. The principle coincidentia oppositorum is realised in that way and it is a structure of reality. That hierarchical structure of reality is not statical but rather dynamical: dialectical movement of three concepts – the fundamental unity, self-divideness and self-joining. That ontological structure of reality Karsavin names as a person in theological sense. Lev Karsavin mostly wrote philosphical-theological treatises but there are and some poetical works, precisely lyrics. There is question: is such form (philosophical-theological treatise, poem) adequatte to content? What means this corealation between academical and „popular“ form of Karsavin‘s philosophy? The most interesting moment in Karsavin‘s personal theological metaphysics is his „Circle of Sonnets“, written in Soviet prison. This poem was created in prison orally and author wrote the poem on the sheat of paper later. Probably there is dialectical corelation between orality and literacy (similary to the principle coincidentia oppositorum). Such and other questions are investigated in the article.

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