Карсавин Л.П. Сочинения. Том VI. О началах

Reprint edition of a book published in Berlin by the Obelisk publishing house in 1925. Lev Platonovich Karsavin (1882 - 1952) - cultural historian, Russian religious philosopher, poet, expert on the religious teachings of the European Middle Ages, one of the passengers of the "philosophical ship" (the collective name for several flights of passenger ships that delivered 81 deportees from Petrograd to Germany in 1922 Russian opposition representative of the intelligentsia, including philosophers). “We sent these people because there was no reason to shoot them, and it was impossible to endure,” Leon Trotsky said then. "On the Beginnings (Experience of Christian Metaphysics)" is the central book of Karsavin, where he gives the basis of his philosophical system. The title, coinciding with the title of Origen's main work, helps to understand the nature of the book. Preaching the philosophy of dual unity, Karsavin defends the rational basis of faith and knowledge of God. Without abandoning traditional religious and philosophical ideas, without changing or denying anything, the author proposes to see everything as if anew from the standpoint of an individual personality.