Losev Alexey Fedorovich Biography

Philosopher, religious thinker, translator and commentator of ancient literature, professor, doctor of philological sciences, teacher. The biography was born on September 10 in Novocherkassk in the family of a Don Cossack, a teacher of physics and mathematics and a gifted musician, a connoisseur of spiritual music and church singing. In the year he graduated from the Novocherkassk classical gymnasium with a gold medal and a music school of the Italian violinist F.

in the year graduated from Moscow University at once in two departments - philosophy and classical philology. He worked as a teacher in Moscow gymnasiums, while preparing for master's exams, which he successfully withstood in the year. For about three years he taught classical philology at the University of Nizhny Novgorod, where he was elected professor in the year.

In e gg. In the year he was married to Valentina Sokolova. As part of the study of the ancient aesthetics of the word and symbol, he studied the philosophy of the name as the “original essence” of the world. In these years, A. Losev published a series of works: “Antique Cosmos and Modern Science”, “Music as the subject of logic”, “Philosophy of the name”, “Dialectics of the artistic form”, “Dialectics of the number in the dam”, “Criticism of Platonism in Aristotle”, “Essays of ancient symbolism and mythology”, vol.

This is the first “eight-term” was enthusiastically perceived by Russian emigration and was criticized in the Soviet press, up to the attacks of L., under the pretext of illegal inserts in the “dialectic of the myth”, was arrested on April 18, after a year and a half, condemned in the case of the so-called counter-revolutionary organization “True-Orthodox Church”.

The conclusion was serving in Svirlag. In the camp, Losev greatly damaged his vision, and by the end of his life almost completely blinded. He was ahead of schedule of disability and restored in civil rights as a drummer of the construction of Belomorkanal, but got the opportunity to publish only after Losev taught ancient literature in a number of universities in the country, from the professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

The title of Doctor of Philological Sciences was awarded according to the totality of scientific achievements. C to death worked in the Moscow State Pedagogical University. The second “eight -term” Losev - the eight -volume “History of ancient aesthetics” came out, for which he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in the year of his wife Valentin Mikhailovna died of cancer.

Alexei Fedorovich married a fictitious marriage to his graduate student, the daughter of the repressed parents of Aze Alibekovna Taho-Gore, who became his faithful assistant, and after death by the keeper of his heritage. Losev in his philosophical constructions continued the traditions of Russian religious philosophy. At the same time, he fundamentally disputed those various compromise options with Catholicism or Protestantism, which, following Vl.

Solovyov was offered by Russian philosophy. Losev believed that it was precisely various kinds of confessional compromises, obvious or hidden deviations from Orthodox dogmatic were one of the reasons for the historical passivity of Orthodox philosophy. First of all, it was necessary to reconstruct the Orthodox type of historical thinking, to realize the specifics of the understanding of social being laid down in Orthodoxy, in contrast to Catholic or Protestant, which, according to Losev, in an open or veiled form led to the formation of the then European concepts of history and sociality.

Putting himself a frontal task of logical-dialectical rethinking and streamlining of knowledge, Losev built the typologies of various actual forms of art, clarified on uniform approaches both the scientific “first principles” of symbolization, modeling, structuring, and fundamental ideas about the primordcy of the problem of apophatism and trinity, and the onomatic principles.

Losev proved the universalism of the system of the Losev system on the materials of ancient and Christian cultures, philology, linguistics, musicology, logic, mathematics. The history of ancient aesthetics in Losev is essentially the history of ancient philosophy. Alexei Fedorovich was forbidden to engage in philosophy, he was recommended only to engage in antiquity.

And in the form of the history of ancient aesthetics, a powerful corps of the history of philosophy in ten volumes was created, which has no analogues in world science. Another important point that distinguishes him from most of the Russian philosophers contemporary to him is the attitude to dogma. Losev recognized and postulated the importance of dogmatic definitions, confessional differences existing in the Christian world.

And the central place in this regard occupies, in his opinion, Filioque, this real border that separates Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Losev was the first to attempt to remove the entire specificity of Western thought and the Western Church from the false teaching of Filioque both in Catholicism and in Protestantism. Dedicated to this problem, the page of “Essays on ancient symbolism and mythology” can now be considered the classic theological text.

Alexei Fedorovich believed that the Church Slavonic language cannot be replaced by the Russian language, that modern church singing is often designed for an artistic effect, that this is not a prayer.Losev himself at one time went to the church in Moscow, where Solovetsky monks sang, and generally loved monastic services, spent a passionate and bright week in monasteries. Alexei Fedorovich very close to Archimandrite David, who was the abbot of the Andreevsky monastery on Athos and founded the Andreevsky Compound in St.

Petersburg. It was his spiritual father. Then Losev’s confessor was Fr. Melchizedek from the Zosima Desert, later - Vladyka Theodore Pozdeevsky, with whom Alexei Fedorovich met at shipping. Among the other acquaintances of those years were Vladyka Arseny Zhadanovsky, Vladyka Serafim Zvezdinsky, Vladyka Bartholomew Remov. There was a period when he confessed in the letters to the abbot of the abbot, who lived in a deep shutter in Ukraine, John Seletsky, with whom the Losevs simultaneously served in the camp in the village of Medvezhya Gora.

In recent years, Alexei Fedorovich confessed and communed secretly, at home. He knew church services by heart. The post was strictly observed. A. Losev died in the ninety -fifth year of his life, in M, on the eve of the celebration of the flight of the baptism of Rus', on the day of memory of his beloved saints - Cyril and Methodius. And two days before, he dictated his last text - "The Word about Cyril and Methodius." He was buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Rehabilitated posthumously in the year. Literature about the author.