- Reformation Studies, Reformation and Post-Reformation, Aristotle, Medieval Studies, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy, and 11 moreHumanities, History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Second Scholasticism, Scholastic Philosophy, Scholastic Metaphysics and Logic, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophical Theology, Aristotelianism, Aristotle's Commentators, and Thomismedit
- 2012 - Candidate of Sciences [PhD] in Philosophy (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) 2011-2014 - Associate rese... more2012 - Candidate of Sciences [PhD] in Philosophy (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
2011-2014 - Associate researcher (Russian Christian Academy for Humanities)
2014-2015 - Lecturer (St. Petersburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine)
2015-2019 - Senior lecturer (St. Petersburg State Academy of Veterinary Medicine)
since 2019 - Associate Professor (St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine)edit
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The article considers the first experience of interpretation and criticism of the Kantian doctrine of knowledge on the part of neo-scholastic thinkers in 1st half of the 19th century. It is shown that the transition from confessional... more
The article considers the first experience of interpretation and criticism of the Kantian doctrine of knowledge on the part of neo-scholastic thinkers in 1st half of the 19th century. It is shown that the transition from confessional polemics, which hadn’t philosophical interpretation, to the presentation and analysis of Kantian epistemology in Cesare Baldinotti’s treatise “Tentaminum metaphysicorum” (1817), when scholar takes an understanding of Kantianism as radical skepticism. At the same time, he left unanswered questions about what type of traditional concepts Kantianism refers, and how it can be described in the language of scholasticism. The first problem was solved by the Italian thinker Gaetano Sanseverino, who tried to correlate Kantianism with models traditionally opposed to scholasticism (like averroism). The second problem was solved by Jaime Balmes and Joseph Kleutgen, who outlined the boundaries of the compromise between scholasticism and Kantianism, trying to des...
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This article describes the problem of the possibility of natural theology, as it was understood in the discussion between Catholics and Protestants at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The topic is relevant because on the one hand,... more
This article describes the problem of the possibility of natural theology, as it was understood in the discussion between Catholics and Protestants at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The topic is relevant because on the one hand, the category theologia naturalis by this time accumulated a lot of theological and philosophical values, and it is for some traditions a system-forming category that identifies the relation of certain concepts of early modern science. On the other hand, it formed a point around which arguments for and against fundamental decisions were built in the field of ontology, epistemology, anthropology, etc. Thus, the problem of natural theology, its possibilities, composition, and connection with the theology of Revelation (theologia revelata) is a fundamental factor in the development of confessional thought in the early modern period. In studying this problem, emphasis is placed on the ways to conceptualize the idea of natural theology, since this factor...
The Article is devoted to the Representative of the Early Neo-Scholasticism, Spanish Thinker Jaume Balmes. The Focus of Attention is the Interpretation of the Kantian Doctrine of Knowledge, which Balmes proposed in the Fourth Book of... more
The Article is devoted to the Representative of the Early Neo-Scholasticism, Spanish Thinker Jaume Balmes. The Focus of Attention is the Interpretation of the Kantian Doctrine of Knowledge, which Balmes proposed in the Fourth Book of his “Filosofia Fundamental”(1846). It is shown that contrary to the generally negative attitude towards Kant and the Philosophy of Criticism that prevailed by the 1830s in Catholic Intellectual Culture, Balmes not only seriously studies and evaluates the Results of Kantian Criticism, but also he finds many points of contact between Criticism and Scholasticism, for which he undertakes a large-scale rewriting of the Kantian Theory of Knowledge in Terms of Scholasticism. At the same time, he offers Criticism of Kantian philosophy based on the Resources of the Scholastic Tradition, which allows integrating the Transcendental Analysis of Cognition developed by Kant into the Methods of Scholastic Philosophy. Balmes sought to restore the Possibility of Me...
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The author analyzes the rise of the theory of knowledge in the Catholic intellectual culture of the period between 1840s and 1920s. This period can be divided into two stages of comparable significance: the stage of the Neo-Scholasticism... more
The author analyzes the rise of the theory of knowledge in the Catholic intellectual culture of the period between 1840s and 1920s. This period can be divided into two stages of comparable significance: the stage of the Neo-Scholasticism (1840‒1870) and the stage of a proper Neo-Thomism (1870‒1920). It is further possible to distinguish three forms in the development of these stages, which are examined from an epistemological perspective. The first form of epistemology, characteristic of the 1840s-1870s, and associated with the names of G. Sanseverino, M. Liberatore, J. Balmes, J. Kleutgen, is characterized by a traditional scholastic model of understanding as unity of the three intellectual operations. However, this model is complicated by a differentiated analysis of individual functions and moments of understanding, associated with Wolffianism. The next form of epistemology was formed in 1880s-1910s and was characterized by an attempt to return “back to Aquinas”, as well as by the formation of the Neo-Thomism, enshrined in the “24 Thomistic theses”. In the doctrine of cardinal D. Mercier, the realistic epistemology of Acquinas came into contact with modern philosophy and psychology. The third stage was associated with J. Marechal and his predecessors (1910‒1920), who proposed a new understanding of the theory of knowledge. This new approach inherited the Kantian view of cognition but proposed a revision of the critical method itself (in the writings of J. Marechal’s). The critical method underwent a reconstruction on the basis of the doctrine of the four causes of Aristotle and Aquinas.
Savinov, R. V. “Razvitie epistemologii neoskholastiki i neotomizma v
1840‒1920-e gg.” [The rise of neo-scholastic and neo-Thomist epistemology (1840‒1920)], Filosofskii zhurnal / Philosophy Journal, 2019, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 66‒77. (In Russian)
Savinov, R. V. “Razvitie epistemologii neoskholastiki i neotomizma v
1840‒1920-e gg.” [The rise of neo-scholastic and neo-Thomist epistemology (1840‒1920)], Filosofskii zhurnal / Philosophy Journal, 2019, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 66‒77. (In Russian)
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This article analyses the development of anthropological problems in Martin Luther’s theology, revealing the transformation of this topic in its later period. The main source of the study is Luther’s treatise "Disputatio de... more
This article analyses the development of anthropological problems in Martin Luther’s theology, revealing the transformation of this topic in its later period. The main source of the study is Luther’s treatise "Disputatio de homine" (1536). Since anthropological problems are not represented as a special part in Luther’s doctrine but are included in the context of multifaceted theological quests, we propose a model for reconstructing Luther’s ideas concerning the human nature on the basis of various accents that he made in diff erent periods of his life. In particular, the “early” Luther (1510–1525) asserts the impossibility to determine the nature of man because its radical destruction by sin. Salvation is carried out as a change of this sinful nature, “birth from above”, liberating man from “slavery to the world” (main theme of the treatise "De libertate christiana"), and changes the willfulness into an instrument of understanding the will of God ("De servo arbitrio"). Later on, the “late” Luther (the 1530s) changes the approach to interpreting anthropological problems without abandoning the his ideas expressed earlier: he acknowledges the possibility of comprehending human nature, connects the history of creation and the history of salvation in the concept of tota creaturа, and through this connection between creation and the Creator he approaches the interpretation of the problem of predestination (individual, rather than generic). This circumstance allows us to consider the late period of Luther’s life, which usually overlooked, as an important stage in the development of his doctrine.
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The article considers ne of the most Important Sources that influenced the Development of Neo-Thomism: «Twenty-four Thomist theses», promulgated on July 27, 1914, and became the Doctrinal Foundation of the Intellectual Culture of the... more
The article considers ne of the most Important Sources that influenced the Development of Neo-Thomism: «Twenty-four Thomist theses», promulgated on July 27, 1914, and became the Doctrinal Foundation of the Intellectual Culture of the Catholic Church until the Period of «Aggiornamento». The General Historical Conditions for the appearance of this Document are revealed, that caused its Publication. It is determined that the Version of Thomism that was presented in these Theses was more Stringent than the Tomism of Neo-Scholastics of the 18th –19th Centuries, the was formed of which was influenced by Other Trends of Medieval and Post-Medieval Thought. A General Overview of the Theses is proposed, and the Systematic Consctrustion of the Theses is emphasized, connected with the Design of Philosophy that was Characteristic to Neo-Scholasticism and included such Parts as Ontology, Cosmology, Psychology and Natural Theology. Some Features of the Theses are shown, in particular, their Sharpness against the Materialistic and Cartesian Understanding of Matter, an Axiomatic Affirmation about the Essential Independence of Thinking from Corporeality. The Article gives a Russian Translation of Twenty-Four Thomist Theses, and Commentary showing some Specific Features of the Content of this Text.
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The aim of the present article is to examine the circumstances which led to the appearance of the Index to Francisco Suárez’s treatise Metaphysical disputations. Far from being simply a reference supplement to the treatise, the Index is... more
The aim of the present article is to examine the circumstances which led to the appearance of the Index to Francisco Suárez’s treatise Metaphysical disputations. Far from being simply a reference supplement to the treatise, the Index is an exegetical instrument in its own right and no doubt bears mark of Suarez’s attitude toward Aristotle and the commentating tradition to which he himself also belongs. In the work of commentators of Aristotle’s writings, the emergence of the genre of index and its specific functions was gradual. The indices
compiled by Averroist scholars like Marcantonio Zimara and Giulio Palamede were designed as a proof of semantic and terminological unity between Aristotle’s original and his Arab commentators; such indices were often intended as a weapon against the humanists who professed to follow the ‘genuine’ Aristotle and denied the authority of the scholastic exegesis. A good example of a different kind of reference work is Index locupletissimus by Francisco Ruiz, which takes advantage of both the scholastic and the humanist studies of Aristotle and represents a step forward from a committed commentary toward the higher criticism of texts. Suárez’s Index can thus be regarded as a product of the process of reappraisal of the corpus Aristotelicum which took place in 16th century and presented what may be called an ‘endurance test’ for the scholastic interpretation. It embodies the experience of systematic thinking that goes beyond the unconditional appeal to authority. Seeing as metaphysics, from the viewpoint of the tradition to which Suárez belongs, incorporates nearly the entire contents of philosophy, it will hardly be an exaggeration to say that Aristotle’s text, which is the foundation of the Jesuit philosopher’s work, becomes itself a part of reality and subject to metaphysical interpretation.
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compiled by Averroist scholars like Marcantonio Zimara and Giulio Palamede were designed as a proof of semantic and terminological unity between Aristotle’s original and his Arab commentators; such indices were often intended as a weapon against the humanists who professed to follow the ‘genuine’ Aristotle and denied the authority of the scholastic exegesis. A good example of a different kind of reference work is Index locupletissimus by Francisco Ruiz, which takes advantage of both the scholastic and the humanist studies of Aristotle and represents a step forward from a committed commentary toward the higher criticism of texts. Suárez’s Index can thus be regarded as a product of the process of reappraisal of the corpus Aristotelicum which took place in 16th century and presented what may be called an ‘endurance test’ for the scholastic interpretation. It embodies the experience of systematic thinking that goes beyond the unconditional appeal to authority. Seeing as metaphysics, from the viewpoint of the tradition to which Suárez belongs, incorporates nearly the entire contents of philosophy, it will hardly be an exaggeration to say that Aristotle’s text, which is the foundation of the Jesuit philosopher’s work, becomes itself a part of reality and subject to metaphysical interpretation.
The Philosophy Journal. 2017, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 32–46
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In the article the «idea of university» in Russia considered. Scientific and educational ideals in the 18th century was reflected in the creation of the Academy of Sciences and the Academic University. The understanding of the... more
In the article the «idea of university» in Russia considered. Scientific and educational ideals in the 18th century was reflected in the creation of the Academy of Sciences and the Academic University. The understanding of the organization of the scientific community and its tasks, as documented in Laurentius Blumenstrost’s Project (1724), reflected both the real situation in the European «République des Lettres» and the difficulties in development of the Academy and University. «Hybrid» structure combined both the Academy of Sciences and the University, with the of expert and educational functions, at the same time the name of the Academy was given to legitimize it. At the same time, this structure did not have the opportunity to appropriate academic degrees, which deprived it of its usefulness in the eyes of the participants of this institution. Efforts of Lomonosov in the 1760’s directed to public legitimization of the Academic University, in accordance with his understanding of the significance of this structure.
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The paper proposed an model of the phenomenon of Protestant Scholasticism, based on the description of the scholastic method of systematization. Proceeding from the thesis that the scholastic is (primarily) a systematic knowledge,... more
The paper proposed an model of the phenomenon of Protestant Scholasticism, based on the description of the scholastic method of systematization. Proceeding from the thesis that the scholastic is (primarily) a systematic knowledge, indicate characteristics of this phenomenon, and the most important thinkers and their writings, and contribution to the development of the scientific systematization, which
understood as a method of formation of the internal unity of the construction in various level and content. For Medieval and Post-Medieval Catholic scholasticism this principle was Corpus Aristotelicum, which basis evolved philosophical «courses» of the Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits and other religious thinkers. This way shaped method of intertextual reconstruction of order tradition. The Protestant scholasticism in the following Corpus Aristotelicum was taboo (Luther, Calvin almost completely denied the positive signifi cance of Aristotle), bringing Protestants faced with the problem of the formation of new principles of systematization. Orthodox Lutherans and Calvinists thought initially off ered a way to organize system of knowledge, well founded key theological principles (authority of Scripture, distinguish on God and the world, etc.). From these principles came Amand Polanus Nikolas Taurellus, Klemens Timpler. On the other hand, it took the form of an attempt to create a systematization that would give space for problems, it doesn’t directly follow from the confessional dogmatic. These efforts have made Rudolph Goclenius, developed a form of philosophical vocabulary and the philosophical principle of antinomy, and Balthasar Meissner, who created a kind of «meccano» that allows you to reconstruct both the theological and philosophical discourse than has significantly expanded the content of Protestant scholasticism. These facts allow to consider the Protestant scholasticism as a specific intellectual culture, reflecting the major tendencies of the Early Modern.
understood as a method of formation of the internal unity of the construction in various level and content. For Medieval and Post-Medieval Catholic scholasticism this principle was Corpus Aristotelicum, which basis evolved philosophical «courses» of the Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits and other religious thinkers. This way shaped method of intertextual reconstruction of order tradition. The Protestant scholasticism in the following Corpus Aristotelicum was taboo (Luther, Calvin almost completely denied the positive signifi cance of Aristotle), bringing Protestants faced with the problem of the formation of new principles of systematization. Orthodox Lutherans and Calvinists thought initially off ered a way to organize system of knowledge, well founded key theological principles (authority of Scripture, distinguish on God and the world, etc.). From these principles came Amand Polanus Nikolas Taurellus, Klemens Timpler. On the other hand, it took the form of an attempt to create a systematization that would give space for problems, it doesn’t directly follow from the confessional dogmatic. These efforts have made Rudolph Goclenius, developed a form of philosophical vocabulary and the philosophical principle of antinomy, and Balthasar Meissner, who created a kind of «meccano» that allows you to reconstruct both the theological and philosophical discourse than has significantly expanded the content of Protestant scholasticism. These facts allow to consider the Protestant scholasticism as a specific intellectual culture, reflecting the major tendencies of the Early Modern.
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Article devote the problem of so-called «Late Averroism» associated with the doctrine of Averroes — Arab interpreter of Aristotle. After defeat Averroists in 1277 and ban of their group at the Faculty of Arts in Sorbonne, members of this... more
Article devote the problem of so-called «Late Averroism» associated with the doctrine of Averroes — Arab interpreter of Aristotle. After defeat Averroists in 1277 and ban of their group at the Faculty of Arts in Sorbonne, members of this movement have lost their place in the institutional structure of the medieval intellectual community. However, Averroists
were able to find a new niche, relying on a variety of Averroes’ heritage, related to medicine, just in the midst of a pandemic in the middle of the XIV cent. They are well positioned in the world of late medieval scholasticism, and later opposed the humanists have questioned the authenticity of the Latin scholastics. Fall of Averroism initiated by physicians-platonists, refused the authority of Averroes, but in the twilight of his era, they created some new forms of representation of the philosophy that influenced the Early Modern.
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-- Поздний аверроизм: институциональный базис философского дискурса // Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2016. Т. 17, вып. 1. С. 11-19.
were able to find a new niche, relying on a variety of Averroes’ heritage, related to medicine, just in the midst of a pandemic in the middle of the XIV cent. They are well positioned in the world of late medieval scholasticism, and later opposed the humanists have questioned the authenticity of the Latin scholastics. Fall of Averroism initiated by physicians-platonists, refused the authority of Averroes, but in the twilight of his era, they created some new forms of representation of the philosophy that influenced the Early Modern.
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-- Поздний аверроизм: институциональный базис философского дискурса // Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2016. Т. 17, вып. 1. С. 11-19.
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This article traces the history of the reception L. Valla's doctrine in the period of the Reformation. It is shown that this concept played a prominent role in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation strategies in analysis of human... more
This article traces the history of the reception L. Valla's doctrine in the period of the Reformation. It is shown that this concept played a prominent role in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation strategies in analysis of human activities.
Рецепция учения Л. Валлы о свободе воли в Германии XVI в. // Актуальные проблемы ветеринарной медицины. № 147. СПб., 2016. С. 70-74.
Рецепция учения Л. Валлы о свободе воли в Германии XVI в. // Актуальные проблемы ветеринарной медицины. № 147. СПб., 2016. С. 70-74.
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The paper defines differences of Scholastic and Modern type of rationality, the argument being based on comparison of two similar but non-identical concepts, i.e., «mental entity» and «ideal being»; the author shows that the core of the... more
The paper defines differences of Scholastic and Modern type of rationality, the argument being based on comparison of two similar but non-identical concepts, i.e., «mental entity» and «ideal being»; the author shows that the core of the main difference between these types of rationality is in the interpretation of the nature of mind and its activity.
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The article is devoted to the problem of mental entity («ens rationis») in post-Medieval scholastic philosophy, the author offering an overview of a number of theories by Russian and foreign scholars that help to clarify the concept «ens... more
The article is devoted to the problem of mental entity («ens rationis») in post-Medieval scholastic philosophy, the author offering an overview of a number of theories by Russian and foreign scholars that help to clarify the concept «ens rationis» and establish its relationship with a wider historical and philosophical context. .
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– The article deals with models of higher education and the structure of the academic community in Kant's and Fichte's philosophy. It is demonstrated that both concepts emerged as a reaction to the crisis of the University of the Early... more
– The article deals with models of higher education and the structure of the academic community in Kant's and Fichte's philosophy. It is demonstrated that both concepts emerged as a reaction to the crisis of the University of the Early Modernity. Alongside with harsh criticism of the contemporary educational model, these thinkers' offered the alternative that did not correspond to the real vector of scientific development in the 18 th – 19 th centuries.
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Savinov R.V. Review on "Kant's Lectures on Philosophy of Religion". -- Review describe Russian translation of Kant's Lectures on Philosophy of Religion (Moscow, Kanon-Plus Publishing, 2016). -- Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной... more
Savinov R.V. Review on "Kant's Lectures on Philosophy of Religion". --
Review describe Russian translation of Kant's Lectures on Philosophy of Religion (Moscow, Kanon-Plus Publishing, 2016). --
Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2016. Т. 17, вып. 3. С. 344-349.
Review describe Russian translation of Kant's Lectures on Philosophy of Religion (Moscow, Kanon-Plus Publishing, 2016). --
Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2016. Т. 17, вып. 3. С. 344-349.
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Вестник Русской христианской гуманитарной академии. 2013. Т. 14, вып. 3. С. 364-366.
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Report in International Workshop on the History of Philosophy “INTELLECT AND WILL IN THE MEDIEVAL THOUGHT”. Saint-Petersburg State University, 30 September – 2 October 2019
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Report in theoretical seminar "Philosophical and Theological Explications of the 'Ontological Argument' in the History of European Thought" (St. Petersburg, 2018, October 27)
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Report in local conference "Ethos of Reformation. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's Reformation". St. Petersburg, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, 2016, November 24.
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Реформация начиналась как восстание против средневековых форм культуры, прежде всего, в богословии, где господствовал схоластический рационализм. Лютером и другими реформаторами были отвергнуты как главный конструктивный инструмент... more
Реформация начиналась как восстание против средневековых форм культуры, прежде всего, в богословии, где господствовал схоластический рационализм. Лютером и другими реформаторами были отвергнуты как главный конструктивный инструмент теологического дискурса, ставивший ее (теологию) в ряду других наук – силлогистика, так и связанная с ней философия. Однако, с развитием протестантской теологии, силлогистика была оправдана, а философия восстановлена в своих правах.
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Reformation began as a revolt against medieval cultural forms, prima facie, in theology, where scholastic rationalism dominated. Luther and others reformers reject a main constructive tool of theological discourse – syllogistic logic, and... more
Reformation began as a revolt against medieval cultural forms, prima facie, in
theology, where scholastic rationalism dominated. Luther and others reformers reject
a main constructive tool of theological discourse – syllogistic logic, and scholastic
philosophy, related with it. But in development of protestant theology, syllogistic logic
and philosophy was restaurated (in Piscator’s and Polanus’ Biblical Comments).
theology, where scholastic rationalism dominated. Luther and others reformers reject
a main constructive tool of theological discourse – syllogistic logic, and scholastic
philosophy, related with it. But in development of protestant theology, syllogistic logic
and philosophy was restaurated (in Piscator’s and Polanus’ Biblical Comments).