Russian philosophy

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Justin: Ya, I read those guys after I got the job, had read Berdayev before 
actually; and Tolstoi (as a philosopher) too, some others. Russian 
philosophy doesn't look like philosophy to someome trained in Anglo-AMerican

analytical philosophy. It's more like highly charged, rather poetic (at its 
best) expression of feeling than careful construction of arguments. That's 
not a criticism, just a statement. I recognize that the Russian philosophers

were not trying to be Hume or Mill and failing. They were doing something 
else. When I went to philosophy conferences in Russia, this lead to culture 
conflicts.

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Me:

They never had a Kant but they had a lot of Pascals.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal