FERTILE GROUND FOR SEEKING GOD IN THE SILVER AGE

Abstract

The author of the article conducts a study of the conditions for the emergence of intellectuals-seekers. According to the author, the emergence of intellectuals’ seekers is the result of interaction between European philosophy and the actual conditions in Russia. However, the real conditions in Russia as power inherent causes played a decisive role in the process of searching for God adding the Russian intelligentsia. The rapid development of bourgeois relations of production in the second half of the nineteenth century brought to maintain on the one hand, the concept of a liberal, democratic renewal of mankind in accordance with the ideals of civil society, legal state, on the other hand, gave rise to Marxism, which became the ideology of the rejects in this changing world of the lower classes. In such a situation in Russia formed various political parties and ideological currents. The end of the 19th century was marked all over Europe, and in Russia alone, the strong influence of two people. It was Marx and Nietzsche. Familiarity with Russian Marxism can be attributed more to the 40-th years of 19th century, an important indicator of what was a great event - the publication of "Capital" Marx in the 70-ies. Decade, he worked from 1894 to 1904 it was characterized by the wide spread of Marxism in Russia. And the years - spreading the ideas of Marxism and Nietzsche - coincide with a key period of formation of the worldview of the representatives of searching for God. The author, on the basis of the study notes that almost all Russian intellectuals - God-seekers, second generation operated under the dual influence of traditional Russian religious-philosophical thought and European neoromanticism. V. Solovyov’s ideas has laid a solid Foundation for Russian intellectuals, the seekers of the second generation of the turn of the century, especially since he had a direct impact on them: in 1885 at Moscow University organized the first philosophical society in Russia. It is from this new religious philosophers began his philosophical life.