Abstract
The article is based on a speech at the second Bezhetsk readings in memory of V. Bibikhin. This time they were also dedicated to the memory of V. Bibibikhin's friend, Sergey Khoruzhiy, who left in September 2020. They were tied by close friendship and heated polemics. The topic of controversy was, in particular, the Palamite dogma. In this article, I try to identify the source of this controversy within the philosophical problem itself. It is rooted in the Parmenidean definition of the identity of thinking and being and in the Aristotelian concept of energy. It is with Aristotle that the leading theme of V. Bibikhin's philosophizing, the theme of “energy of rest”, is connected. In this “peace”, however, lurk the ontological aporias, clarified by Plato in “Sophist” and “Parmenides”. The solution of these aporias in Neoplatonism leads to the transformation of the meaning of ontological identity. S. Khoruzhiy considers the ascetic practice of the Byzantine hesychasts and spiritual practices in general as the basis of his synergic anthropology. Phenomenological analysis of ascetic experience unfolds the configuration of the “energies of ontological opening” of a person. On this basis, an anthropology of possible constitutions of a person is built in its interconnection with being.
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