K.P. Pobedonostsev as Philosopher-Personalist
The article shows that K.P. Pobedonostsev belongs to the original Russian tradition of philosophical personalism, based not on neo-leibnizianism, but on the disclosure of the Orthodox experience of understanding man as the image and likeness of God. His philosophy agrees with the Russian paradigm of creating “new beginnings of philosophy” (I. Kireevsky), which is based on the principle of “integral mind”. Pobedonostsev's concept of culture and history has personalistic character, considering any social and historical phenomena in terms of their personal content; and personal content - as the embodiment of the highest religious ideal of man. According to K.P. Pobedonostsev, the knowledge of God is based on the natural abilities of a person and always has personal character. The destruction of Christian moral consciousness, according to K.P. Pobedonostsev, leads to the degradation of man and society in the form of total public life depersonalization - the substitution of personal relations with dead institutions.