О некоторых философских источниках «мэонизма» Н. Минского (трактат «При свете совести: мысли и мечты о цели жизни»)

Abstract

The article analyzes some sources of the philosophical concept of the founder of the religious and philosophical course of domestic symbolism – Nikolai M. Minsky (1855/1856–1937), author of the famous treatise „With the light of conscience: thoughts and dreams about the purpose of life” (1890). „Meonism” – so the author himself called his philosophical system, referring this name to Plato as one of the most important sources of his ontology. The problem of the philosophical genesis of „meonism” remained relevant at all stages of the study and comments on „With the light of conscience”. However, so far, the attention of reviewers and commentators has been focused mainly on representatives of European philosophy, A. Schopenhauer and I. Kant, but Plato and other antique philosophers, despite the direct indication of the author of the treatise, remained unstudied. The article fills this gap by introducing into the circle the philosophical sources of the treatise of the Minsky concepts of Plato and Plotin as the most representative for understanding the antique genesis of „meonism”. The article compares the interpretation of Minsky and ancient philosophers of such central categories as „meon”, “single”, „nothingness”, “anamnesis”, etc. Turning to the circle of European philosophy, the authors of the article, as a topical source of „meonism,” highlight a number of maxim philosophical teachings of F. Nietzsche as a figure who in many ways defined the vector of developing philosophy in Russia at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. In particular, there is a transformation in the philosophical thinking of Minsky of such category as „love for fate” („amor fati”), which in many ways defined the moral pathos „With the light of conscience”, the ideal of selfless attitude to sufferings and death.