1. Nikolay Lossky was the father of the influential Christian theologian Vladimir Lossky.
18 Facts About Nikolay Lossky
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Nikolay Lossky's father, Onufry Lossky, had Belarusian roots and was an Eastern Orthodox Christian; his mother Adelajda Przylenicka was Polish and Roman Catholic.
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Nikolay Lossky called for a Russian religious and spiritual reawakening while pointing out post-revolution excesses.
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Nikolay Lossky was invited to Prague by Tomas Masaryk and became professor at the Russian University of Prague at Bratislava, in Czechoslovakia.
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Nikolay Lossky helped the Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin with his Social and Cultural Dynamics.
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In 1947 N O Lossky took a position teaching theology at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, an Orthodox Christian seminary in Crestwood, New York.
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In 1961, after the death of his famous son, theologian Vladimir Lossky, N O Lossky went to France.
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Nikolay Lossky was one of the preeminent Russian neo-idealists of his day.
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Nikolay Lossky followed and developed his ontological and gnosiological interpretation of objective reality from Christian neoplatonism based on the Patristic Fathers.
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Nikolay Lossky summed up this concept in the term "all is immanent in all".
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Nikolay Lossky based his intuitivism on gnosiology in that he taught first principles as uncreated or uncaused.
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Nikolay Lossky's ontology being consistent with Leibniz's optimism expressed as the Best of all possible worlds in contrast to the pessimism and nihilism of more pro-Western Russian philosophers.
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Nikolay Lossky's work is opposed to the pagan elements of the pagan philosophers that were an influence on his work.
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Nikolay Lossky believed that philosophy would transcend its rational limits and manifest a mystical understanding of experience.
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Nikolay Lossky proves that the will is free, taking as his starting point the law of causality but defending a dynamistic interpretation of it.
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Much of the theology that Nikolay Lossky covers in the book History of Russian Philosophy is inline with the idealism of Origen.
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Nikolay Lossky taught this co-operation as organic and or spontaneous order, integrality, and unity called sobornost.
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Nikolay Lossky edited publications from the first six symposia.