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The concept of “pagan” has an Old Testament origin. In Russian, “gentiles” were called peoples. The ancient Jews used the term “am” (עם) to describe themselves, and “goy” (גוי) to describe other nations. Jews = the people, it is one (chosen), and the “languages” of the nations are many. Thus the Jews themselves worshipped one God, and were sure that all other nations (tongues) worshipped many gods.
Anyone who opposes my principles, values, interests, is an adversary. I have an obligation to respond with better ideas and arguments. Whoever prevents me from expressing, disseminating and defending those values, those principles, those interests, is an enemy. Today's enemy is the democrat. There are, in the collective unconscious, certain “divine”, untouchable words, whose equivocal, elastic meanings cannot be opposed under pain of exclusion and penal repression. The noun democracy and the adjective democratic are the totem words - together with progress - of the present.
The pseudoscience of the modern age began with the elimination of three out of Aristotle’s four causes. Only one, causa efficiens, the cause of motion, was retained. As a result, the object lost its three dimensions — the eidetic, the hylistic, and, above all, the entelechial.
In the year and a half since 29-year-old Daria Dugina was killed in a car bombing near Moscow, the question “Who is Daria Dugina?” has not gone away. On the contrary, as the smoke cleared, this question only intensified and broadened.
We will not be able to understand the full depth of the current confrontation without philosophical reflection. Philosophers have always interpreted war as something necessary. Heraclitus speaks of war as the "father of things": πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ εστί, πάντων δε βασιλεύς. War has always constituted the world and space. Without war, without division, the world is impossible.
The great fear of human beings is death, a passage of state that has troubled all ages without provoking the terror of our times. The fear of nothingness, of eternal darkness, of the loss of affections and known things is characteristic of the time of dissolution, where death is experienced as the end of everything.
Formulated by Odoevsky and Venevitinov, and more broadly by the circle of Russian philosophers, the ‘mandate’ to create a Russian philosophy has been a task extending over two centuries. The Slavophiles, who also emerged from this circle, were the first to respond to it. Later, the Eurasianists, and subsequently the Neo-Eurasianists at the end of the 20th century, continued this work. Ultimately, this ‘mandate’ was perceived as an imperative in Noomakhia and other works focused on exploring the possibility of a Russian philosophy.
On February 24, 2022, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation (SMO) to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The SMO had not only geopolitical, military and ethical prerequisites. In order to understand the significance of the SMO, it should be viewed in the larger context of Russian culture, Russian history, and Russian philosophy, which has its own tradition of reflection on war.
In today's world, where there is a great search for meaning, a search for vocation, etc., there is a great need for spirituality. Malraux said that ‘the 21st century will be spiritual or it will not be’.
One of the major events that has happened to mankind in the last 30 years is the direct encounter with a qualitatively new phenomenon called the ‘law of risk conservation’. Of course, this is not a classical law in the natural-scientific sense of this term: there are practically no such laws in social development, but a conclusion based on accumulated empirical observations.
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