1. Sergey Nikolayevich

(Aug 4, 1862, Ochtyrka – Oct 12, 1905, St. Petersburg), philosopher, professor, and rector of the University of Moscow (1905). Under the influence of the Slavophiles and V. Solovyov, he worked out a system of “concrete idealism.” The way he addressed the problem already reflected the efforts of Russian philosophy of religion at the start of the 20th century to overcome ways of thinking that were only abstract and intellectual. In his Osnovaniya idealizma (1896, “Foundations of I…