Ivan Ilyin - Assumptions of creative democracy

Ivan Ilyin - Assumptions of creative democracy ИСХС-NIKA 2,71 тыс. подписчиков 2 574 просмотра 10 сент. 2020 г. “You need to imagine and present everything clearly to yourself. For thirty-four years in a row by hunger, fear and torture they have been weaning people from independent thinking, from political and economic initiative, from responsible resolution, and from morning to evening, from birth to death, they filled people’s souls with deadly and false schemes of vulgar Marxism and the meanness of “dialectical“ materialism ”. What kind of citizens, what kind of democrats was prepared by the communist government? Not citizens, but slaves of a totalitarian state; not politicians, but death-scared careerists; not workers, but sycophants and deliverers - they were created by the Soviet regime, people completely deprived of the state-building horizon and honest - yes, just honest - experience and independent, yes, just independent understanding.“ You can download translation text here: Ivan Ilyin was born on April 10, 1883, in a noble family in Moscow, from Russian father and a German mother. He studied law and philosophy of law under and . He began a study trip to Germany to collect material for the doctoral topic “The Crisis of the Rationalist Philosophy of Law in Germany in the 19th Century“. Later, the topic of the dissertation changed to “Hegel’s philosophy as a teaching on the concreteness of God and man“. It was published in 1918 and was so highly valued that he was awarded a master’s and doctoral degree in state sciences at the same time. He opposed the Bolsheviks; arrested, sentenced to death, his sentence commuted to life exile from Russia. In 1922, he was expelled from his homeland with Berdyaev and other Russian God-seekers. He lived and worked in Berlin until 1938. With Berdyaev and Višeslavetsky, he founded the Russian Religious and Philosophical Academy, started the magazine “Russian bell“, was a member of many editorial offices, and gave lectures throughout Europe. After Hitler came to power, he was deprived of a chair at the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin, because he refused to teach according to the Nazi program. From 1934 to 1938, all his published books were confiscated and his public appearance in the Third Reich was banned. In 1938, he managed to move to Switzerland. Despite the ban on political activity, he also illegally holds lectures in Switzerland and publishes in the newspapers of the ROVS, an officer’s anti-Bolshevik organization. Author of an extensive and valuable philosophical and theological work. He died in Switzerland on December 21, 1954.