VSECHELOVECHESKOYE AND OBSHECHELOVECHESKOYE: THE WEST, THE ARAB WORLD AND RUSSIA
https://doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2019-4-12-7-15
Abstract
Vsechelovecheskoye and obshechelovecheskoye are the two Russian words that cannot be rendered into English without distorting their meaning. They both point to universality of human mind, human culture, and human civilization, but there is a fundamental difference in logical vehicles used to arrive at universal. Vsechelovecheskoye presupposes ‘gathering’ the logically diverse models without imposing any general restriction on them, while obshechelovecheskoye is a wellknown for a Western reader understanding of universal as grounded in generic or general. The article exposes at length evidence for the basic thesis: Greek, European, and Western thinking is grounded in substance-based logic (S-logic), while the process-based logic (P-logic) had shaped the Arab, and later Arab-Islamic, thought, culture, and society. Basing himself on theoretical elaboration of that thesis in his last works, the author provides ample illustrations to verify this standpoint: no branch of Islamic culture, neither the basic categories of classical Arab-Islamic thinking (’aṣl-far‘ and ẓāhirbāṭin), can be adequately interpreted outside the domain of P-logic.
About the Author
A. V. Smirnov
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Science (Philosophy), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director
109240, Moskva, ul. Goncharnaya, d. 12, str. 1
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Smirnov A.V. VSECHELOVECHESKOYE AND OBSHECHELOVECHESKOYE: THE WEST, THE ARAB WORLD AND RUSSIA. Concept: philosophy, religion, culture. 2019;(4):7-15. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2019-4-12-7-15
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