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This site is for everyone who is interested in problems at crossroads of phylosophy of history, philosophical anthropology, Christian world-view and philosophical comprehension of the modern world. These problems are discussed in books and articles that I present for your judgment. The books were published in Moscow in 1990 and 2004 (500 copies each). The majority of the articles appeared in the pages of the major Russian philosophical journal Philosophical Problems (1999-2026).
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On the "End of History" As A Problem of Historiosophy
2026
The article upholds and elaborates a historiosophical approach to history as a dual process: sociogenesis and anthropogenesis. The latter presupposes the possibility of a transcending subject becoming connected to an invisible, supra-natural sphere in which the human being is formed as a moral creature, as a person. This formation is created across generations through extraordinary acts of will and through intense perception. As a result, the world becomes “humanized” to a certain degree—that is, a kind of man-made, artificial order is introduced into the natural chaos. If such ongoing efforts cease, however, anthropogenesis may stall or even regress back into the archaic.
According to the author, history as a whole represents a discontinuous process, in which anthropogenic—or strictly historical—phases give way to “empty” periods in this respect. The modern world appears to be such an “empty” phase. Generally amoral and, in many ways, reproducing a new kind of barbarism, it nevertheless possesses unprecedented capacities for the (self-)destruction of humanity and the biosphere. Should these capacities be realized, it is quite possible that this time there will not be a mere alternation of phases, but the arrival of a genuine “end of history,” with humanity exiting the stage altogether.
Human freedom, or the non-determined nature of the human being, however, renders this process probabilistic and leaves the question of the “end of history” open.
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