Sergeja Horužija antropoloģiskais pavērsiens: uz filozofijas, teoloģijas, psiholoģijas un fizikas robežas
The Anthropological Turn of Sergei Horuzhy: On the Boarders of Philosophy, Theology, Psychology and Physics

Summary/Abstract: The article undertakes to analyze the concept of anthropological synergy advocated by Sergei Horuzhy – a present-day Russian thinker, who is a physicist, philosopher, theologian and a scholar of the hesychasm tradition. He maintains that in Western theology the human beings are overshadowed by the dominancy of the social factors. Horuzhy designates this as the forgetting of humanity. In order to tackle this problem he proposes an inter-disciplinary study of man. The concept of synergy does not represent any single teaching about man and draws on various disciplines: philosophy, theology, psychology, etc. This is why Horuzhy`s teaching is called inter-disciplinary. It claims not only to produce a synthesis of various ideas, but also to streamline them into a monolithic conceptual methodological body. The ideas used for such a synthesis serve as the constructing elements of the new methodology and transforms them into universal anthropological model. In this way the synergetic anthropology becomes a trans-disciplinary rather than an inter-disciplinary subject. Although Horuzhy speaks in this case of specific branch of humanities studies, he maintains also that the proposed new model of man could be para-disciplinary, or applicable to all discourses concerning human beings. E. Taivāne`s analysis deals with all the basic concepts of Horuzhy`s anthropological system, e.g. the concept of energy which Horuzhy relates to the Aristotelian ontology.

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