«Гегельянство» Ивана Ильина. Анализ философского метода на примере московского периода творчества

Abstract

The article is devoted to the early period of the work of the Russian philosopher I.A. Ilyin. Currently, there is still a problem for the historians of philosophy re­garding classification of Ilyin to one or another direction of philosophical thought. During the Moscow period of the thinker's work, he wrote the work “Hegel’s Philosophy as a doctrine of the concreteness of God and man” (1918), which for many years brought him fame as the best interpreter of Hegel, and also the title of Hegelian. The author refutes the established stereotype of the Russian philosopher’s belonging to Hegelianism and neo-Hegelianism basing upon the thinker’s own statements, the assessments of Ilyin’s early work by modern re­searchers and the assessments of Ilyin’s contemporaries devoted to his work on Hegel. Ilyin is certainly rooted in Russian philosophy, and a new view of Hegel’s philosophical system allowed him to embark on the path of religious philosophy. The author points out that in many respects it is the philosophical method, the formation of which took place in the early period of creativity, that becomes the main core of I.A. Ilyin’s concept. References are given to archival materials from the MSU Scientific library, which contain draft notes of the thinker dedicated to the development of the philosophical method. It is concluded that Hegel’s philo­sophy was not the only ideological source that influenced the formation of the method of early Ilyin, known as the “way to evidence”.