Parkhomenko, R. N. Boris Chicherin’s Metaphysical Universalism

Abstract: A famous Russian jurist and political philosopher Borish Chicherin (1828 – 1904) introduced his own method which could be named as ‘scientific metaphysics’. Chicherin had always tried to go beyound the borders of positivism and empirism as well as the Russian religious-mystical tradition. Chicherin believed that any ideal beginnings could and should be explained based on the experience and the philosophial ‘insight’ into the world realities. Special attention was paid at logic and science. The author of the given article described the structure of Chicherin’s methodology and figuratively characterised it as the ‘metaphysical universalism’.

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