Historiosophy alive by F.A. Stepun

Abstract

The article, based mainly on material from the book "Past and Unfulfilled" shows the historiosophy by F.A. Stepun not as a religious-philosophical concept of history, but rather as a living perceive of the extraordinary, dramatic and catastrophic historical events by their active participant and protagonist who was a bright, original and all round personality as well. A distinctive feature of the thinker's historiosophical views is a critique of moralism, which he considered to be a complex phenomenon of the aberration of the moral and ethical consciousness of the Russian intellectual. The latter circumstance was still complicated by soteriological claims. One can name the historiosophy by F. Stepun a living one by right because during all his life in exile his thoughts about Russia were accompanied by the painful feelings of conscience of a person who deeply realized and felt his personal guilt and responsibility for the social disaster of his country.