Index
Antinomy
definition
93â4
difference with symbol
14â15, 30â5, 74, 128â9
Florenskyâs view of
29â30, 68â77, 95â7, 119â20
Kantian antinomies
83â7
See also symbol
Aristotle
definition of motion in
22
on continuum (synekhes)
23â5
parallels with Florensky
30â1, 35, 125
Arithmology
42, 52â3
Art
as a living organism
161â3
fourth dimension in
153â4, 160
Berdiaev, Nikolai
10, 99
Bugaev, Nikolai
37â8, 39 (note 9), 41â4, 52â5
Bulgakov, Sergei
on imiaslavie
33, 166, 184â6
Cantor, Georg
influence on Florensky
37â8, 41, 43, 50
Cassirer, Ernst
difference with Florensky
136, 191 (note 2)
Concrete metaphysics
122â7, 133, 158, 162
Continuity (or continuum)
Aristotleâs definition of
23â5
as a modern epistemic principle
12â13, 15â16, 26â8, 30â1, 39â40, 112â5, 125, 195â6
Dante Alighieri
Florenskyâs interpretation of space in The Divine Comedy
47, 132â4
Danto, Arthur
148
Deleuze, Gilles
135â6
Discontinuity
as a denial of the evolution and progress of culture
13, 28â9
as a perfect oxymoron
16â21
as natural entropy of the world
17, 28, 39
epistemology of
51â8
Florenskyâs concept of
28â31, 121â2, 125â6, 144, 191â7
in the digital sciences
56â7
in the theory of functions
37â43
Egorov, Dmitry
43â5, 48â9
Einstein, Albert
influence on Florensky
46, 55â6, 132
in Soviet Russia
49 (note 38)
Favorsky, Vladimir
129, 161
Florensky, Pavel
aesthetic realism
155â63
anthropodicy
14â15, 120 (note 63)
A Presumable Structure of the State in the Future
5, 99 (note 1)
as a philosopher
8â16, 189â98
as a theologian
74â83, 87â92
At the Watersheds of Thought
7, 122â6
Autobiographical Note
12â13, 26â7, 28â9, 75â6
controversial relationship with esotericism
64â6, 129 (note 18), 180â1
criticism of constructivism
58, 136, 165â6
criticism of Dostoevsky
169â70
differential equation and evolutionism
113â4
geocentrism
145
Iconostasis
69, 130â1, 146â9, 152â3
Imaginaries in Geometry (history of the book)
45â50
life of
1â7
Middle Ages vs. Renaissance
105, 110â5, 146â9
moral and political views
99â105, 124
on ancient philosophy
59â66
on arts
153â5, 159â61
on contradiction
70â6, 89â98
on literature
167â76
philosophy of history
105â15
philosophy of nature
125â7, 137â45
Plato vs. Kant
105â10, 115â20
realism
144, 156â9
relationship between science and philosophy
177â8
reverse perspective
112, 146â55
scientific Neoplatonism
14, 35, 56, 190â5
speculative mathematics
45â50, 53â5
The Meaning of Idealism
66â70, 73â4, 120
The Pillar and Ground of Truth as a theodicy
14, 70, 74, 81â3, 88â92, 120 (note 63)
Freud, Sigmund
194 (note 8)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
125â6, 167, 176 (note 49), 187
Goodman, Nelson
157 (note 54)
History
Florenskyâs concept of
100â8
Husserl, Edmund
parallels with Florensky
15â16
Icon
Florenskyâs view of
130â1, 134â6, 151â4, 161â3
Ivanov, Viacheslav
influence on Florensky
33, 59, 69, 110, 123, 135
Kandinsky, Wassily
163
Kant, Immanuel
Florenskyâs critique of
83â7
in The Pillar and Ground of Truth
82â3, 88â9
parallels with Plato
105â10, 115â20
See also Plato
Knowledge
antinomic nature of
66â74
Florenskyâs âpraeambula rationisâ
74â6
Florenskyâs theory of
68, 75â80, 178â9
Language
Florenskyâs concept of
165â7, 172â4, 175â80
Florenskyâs difference with Russell and Frege
165 (note 6), 166 (note 7)
Logic
Florenskyâs criticism of the law of identity
70â4
in The Pillar and Ground of Truth
92â8
Losev, Aleksei
opinions on Florensky
66 (note 27), 73, 161, 180, 184
Luzin, Nikolai
friendship with Florensky
44â5
Matte Blanco, Ignacio
parallels with Florensky
192â4
Name
as a philosophical issue
165â7
definition of
171, 178â9, 181â3
the name of God
183â8
See also language
See also onomatodoxy
Naturalism
Florenskyâs critique of
146â59
Number
as a philosophical issue
41â2, 45â8, 50
Florenskyâs interpretation of imaginary numbers
45â50, 132â3
Florenskyâs intuitionism
52â3
Florenskyâs Pythagorean view of
51â4
Onomatodoxy (or imiaslavie)
Florenskyâs position on
183â8
See also name
Palamas, Gregory
influence on Florensky
14â15, 33â4, 88 (note 22), 101, 135, 137, 171, 185â8
logic of Palamism
184â8
ousia/energeia distinction
129, 134, 144, 165, 171, 185â8
reception of Palamism in Russia
33â4, 101 (note 6), 184 (note 82)
Plato
Florenskyâs praise of
63â6
in Florenskyâs view
59â74, 106â20
parallels with Kant
105â10, 115â20
See also Kant
Pushkin, Aleksandr
169â70, 173â5
Riemann, Bernhard
38, 47, 125, 132
Solovyov, Vladimir
21, 61, 70, 97, 107
Symbol
as a âdiscontinuous conjunctionâ
136
difference with antinomy
14â15, 30â5, 74, 128â9
Florenskyâs definition of
127â9, 135â7, 141, 178
Florenskyâs pre-Palamitic view of
33â4, 123â4
in arts and literature
159â61, 167â76
in Florenskyâs concrete metaphysics
123â44
word as a symbol
171, 178â81
See also antinomy
Trubetskoi, Evgeny
32, 79
Trubetskoi, Sergei
33, 59, 62, 74, 109, 123
Truth
as self-contradiction
70â3, 75â6, 89, 92, 105, 196
Vasilev, Nikolai
94, 96
Vernadsky, Vladimir
126, 137â8, 142, 158
Von Humboldt, Wilhelm
ergon/energeia distinction
101 (note 9), 102â3, 165, 172, 177
See also language