title: Philosophical and scientific interaction between Vladimir Vernadsky and Pavel Florensky
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metadata.value: Naldoniová, Lenka
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metadata.value: 2021-01-21T21:47:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-01-21T21:47:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Naldoniová L. Philosophical and scientific interaction between Vladimir Vernadsky and Pavel Florensky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2020, vol. 36, issue 4, pp. 645–656.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/22666
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article focuses on the philosophical and scientific dialogue between Vladimir Vernadsky
  and Pavel Florensky in the context of Russian philosophy. Florensky formulated his philosophy
  in the book The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, making a great impact on Vernadsky.
  The two philosophers exchanged their thoughts through letters. During the time of his imprisonment,
  Florensky wrote letters on scientific topics to his son Kirill, who worked with
  Vernadsky. Thus, Kirill Florensky became the point of contact between the two thinkers. The
  present article aims to show the complementarity between Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s work
  with a particular emphasis on their conception of noosphere-pneumatosphere connected with
  Plato’s methaphysics, which Florensky interpreted as the world of the Truth or absolute reality.
  Through investigating Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s letters and diaries and comparing their
  conceptions of noosphere and pneumatosphere, as well as their interpretation of reality in
  their writings, it is possible to determine influences of the concepts important for Russian
  religious philosophers, such as a tendency towards wholeness and intuition. The first part of
  the article examines Vernadsky in relation to Russian idealists, the second part of the article is
  focused on the relationship between Vernadsky and Florensky, and the third on the concepts
  of noosphere, pneumatosphere, and the concept of reality (living being) — absolute reality
  (Truth). Through these three steps, the complementarity of Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s interpretations
  are illustrated. Their interpretations are not contradictory because while Vernadsky
  dealt with Earth’s reality and its evolution, and Florensky focused on the metaphysical world,
  both were interested in the evolution of the biosphere-noosphere/pneumatosphere through
  the activity of man. The article is the first study in English focused on the scientific and religious-
  philosophical interaction between Vernadsky and Florensky.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article is published as the result of research funded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava,
  project SGS03/FF/2019–2020 “Bílá místa dějin a současnosti filozofie: Osobnosti a témata na okraji kánonu”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 36; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vladimir Vernadsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pavel Florensky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: noosphere
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pneumatosphere
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian philosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: asymmetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dissymetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: living matter
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intuitive knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Truth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wholeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Philosophical and scientific interaction between Vladimir Vernadsky and Pavel Florensky
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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