The Sobornost: From the History of Russian Religious and Social Thought

 
PIIS013216250009389-0-1
DOI10.31857/S013216250009389-0
Publication type Article
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Occupation: Assist. Prof. at the Faculty of Philosophy
Affiliation: University of Montenegro
Address: Montenegro, Niksic
Journal nameSotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
EditionIssue 5
Pages122-126
Abstract

The principle of sobornost expresses the syncretic and organic union of freedom and unity in communication between people, as well as their attitude towards society, nature, God and the world as a whole, and it essentially determines the Russian Orthodox culture. The spirit of sobornost represents the inner harmonious unity and communication of personality based on love. It is the guarantee of the personality’s autonomy and the saving corrective of each non-blessed and totalitarian pretension of the community (collective, state, and society) to depersonalize and subjugate it. As a result of such spiritual experience, the Russian culture avoided the extremes of individualism and collectivism that form the core of Western rationalist culture to which the principle of sobornost remained alien. The perspective of sobornost is the key to understanding the Russian religious, artistic, philosophical and sociological tradition. The idea of sobornost is a general metaphysical principle of not only thinking, singing and acting but also conditio sine qua non of the knowledge, morals, and faith of the Russian person. The intention to view the attitude of a person towards God and his/her position in the cosmos in a complete way as the unity in diversity (the ideal of cosmic sobornost) and the tendency to unite truth, goodness and beauty, knowledge and faith, thoughts and feelings synthetically and concretely (whole spirit, believing opinion and integral knowledge) represent the leitmotif of all spiritual creativity, beginning with Metropolitan of Kiev Hilarion, then Andrei Rublev, Pushkin, Khomyakov, Kireyevsky, Dostoyevsky, Tyutchev, Solovyov, Berdyaev, S. Trubetskoy, Frank, Sorokin, Ilyin, Panarin, and Semushkin.

KeywordsSobornost, solidarity, spirituality, freedom, personality, community, faith, love, Russian idea
Received23.04.2020
Publication date27.04.2020
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