title: The burden of freedom: The doctrine of subject in Thomas Carlyle’s works
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metadata.value: Lvov, Alexander A.
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metadata.value: 2018-12-21T14:10:50Z
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metadata.value: 2018-12-21T14:10:50Z
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metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Lvov A. A. The burden of freedom: The doctrine of subject in Thomas Carlyle’s works. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 4, pp. 534– 542.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu17.2018.407
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15193
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metadata.value: Although Thomas Carlyle’s contemporaries were Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, the
  pillars of the classical positivism, he was anxious to found the ontological status of the subject.
  Kant showed that the subject is an epistemological institution that plays its part as a way to
  the domain of pure metaphysics; Hegel, a radical Kantian, subdued the whole course of logics,
  nature and history to self-realization of the Absolute Spirit. In Carlyle’s work we find an
  interesting method: he tends to reveal a historical person (“a hero”) as a subject of history
  and interprets him as the one subdued to Providence, or Nature. On this basis he endows the
  hero with the status of a means of Nature. Although this view represents a sound approach to
  creating a qualitative or metaphysical foundation of the description of a human being rather
  than the quantitative approach of sciences and the positivism, it inevitably brings about the
  paradox of “the weak and the powerful”; in the paper it is discussed as the Carlyle’s paradox. It
  is also significant that Carlyle derives his philosophical inspiration in the tradition of German
  idealism. J. G. Fichte’s doctrine of the destination of Man is very indicative in this respect. As a
  result, Carlyle’s doctrine of hero-worship is considered by him as a doctrine of freedom: to be
  free means accepting the burden of Providence and realizing it as a certain life project.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thomas Carlyle
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conservatism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hero-worship
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doctrine of freedom
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: laissez-faire liberalism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Carlyle’s paradox
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The burden of freedom: The doctrine of subject in Thomas Carlyle’s works
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