Kant’s Copernican Turn in Kudryavtsev-Platonov’s System of Transcendental Monism

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  • David Rozhin Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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Kudryavtsev, Kant, Transcendental Monism, Trendelenburg, Krug

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Kudryavtsev-Platonov is an outstanding representative of Russian ecclesiastical-academic philosophy, who stands out from his colleagues in that he often refers to Kantian philosophy in his works. There is no doubt that the formation of his epistemological conception was influenced by the Kantian Copernican turn, but what exactly this influence consisted in has not yet been investigated. To answer this question I first determine under what circumstances Kudryavtsev’s acquaintance with Kant’s epistemology occurred. In particular, I analyzed Kudryavtsev’s previously unpublished manuscript materials for lectures on metaphysics and the history of New Philosophy from the early period of his teaching career at the Moscow Theological Academy. One may conclude from this that the Russian philosopher was more likely to have been exposed to the ideas of Kantian philosophy through interpreters, who popularized Kant’s philosophy, as well as through historical-philosophical literature and critical writings of later Kantians. I then conduct a comparative analysis between Kudryavtsev’s transcendental monism and Kant’s doctrine of space, time and categories of understanding. As a result, I show that Kant’s Copernican turn is one of the key principles in Kudryavtsev’s transcendental monism, but not the only one. In particular, Kudryavtsev utilized Kant’s concepts of apriorism and subjectivity of cognitive forms, whereby he concentrated on the philosophical ideas of F.A. Trendelenburg and W.T. Krug’s transcendental syntheticism in mind.

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2025-01-28

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