TY - GEN

T1 - Towards Creation: Sergius Bulgakov and Pavel Florensky on the Relationship Between Scientific and Religious Experience

AU - Serkova, Vera

AU - Simonenko, Tatyana

AU - Samylov, Oleg

AU - Pylkin, Alexander

N1 - Serkova V., Simonenko T., Samylov O., Pylkin A. (2022) Towards Creation: Sergius Bulgakov and Pavel Florensky on the Relationship Between Scientific and Religious Experience. In: Bylieva D., Nordmann A. (eds) Technology, Innovation and Creativity in Digital Society. PCSF 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89708-6_9

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The revival of the dialogue between science and religion, which characterizes modern culture, testifies to the relevance of the problem of the correlation of scientific and religious experience in cognition. The article demonstrates various, sometimes opposite approaches to formulating and understanding this problem in modern philosophical thought, indicating the pluralism of positions and points of view, as well as the open nature of its discussion, which requires a solid theoretical basis for further analysis. It is suggested that one of the variants of the theoretical and methodological basis for understanding the correlation of scientific and religious experience is found in Russian philosophy at the beginning of the twentieth century, in particular, in the works of its two prominent representatives – Sergius Bulgakov and Pavel Florensky. Considering economic relations in capitalist society, Bulgakov supplements their study with the religious doctrine of Sophia, which makes it possible to reflect on the creative nature of the activity of the subject of production and find explanations for all those negative phenomena that accompany human economic activity. Florensky points out the limitations of pure scientific research, believing that in scientific knowledge such a limiting area of research inevitably opens up, which is no longer the subject of scientific, but exclusively religious speculation. The article analyzes these ideas of Russian philosophers, gives their interpretation in modern philosophical literature and concludes about the interpenetration of scientific and religious experience in cognition.

AB - The revival of the dialogue between science and religion, which characterizes modern culture, testifies to the relevance of the problem of the correlation of scientific and religious experience in cognition. The article demonstrates various, sometimes opposite approaches to formulating and understanding this problem in modern philosophical thought, indicating the pluralism of positions and points of view, as well as the open nature of its discussion, which requires a solid theoretical basis for further analysis. It is suggested that one of the variants of the theoretical and methodological basis for understanding the correlation of scientific and religious experience is found in Russian philosophy at the beginning of the twentieth century, in particular, in the works of its two prominent representatives – Sergius Bulgakov and Pavel Florensky. Considering economic relations in capitalist society, Bulgakov supplements their study with the religious doctrine of Sophia, which makes it possible to reflect on the creative nature of the activity of the subject of production and find explanations for all those negative phenomena that accompany human economic activity. Florensky points out the limitations of pure scientific research, believing that in scientific knowledge such a limiting area of research inevitably opens up, which is no longer the subject of scientific, but exclusively religious speculation. The article analyzes these ideas of Russian philosophers, gives their interpretation in modern philosophical literature and concludes about the interpenetration of scientific and religious experience in cognition.

KW - Pavel Florensky

KW - Religious experience

KW - Scientific experience

KW - Sergius Bulgakov

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118983769&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-89708-6_9

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-89708-6_9

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-3-030-89707-9

T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

SP - 95

EP - 104

BT - Technology, Innovation and Creativity in Digital Society - XXI Professional Culture of the Specialist of the Future

A2 - Bylieva, Daria

A2 - Nordmann, Alfred

PB - Springer Nature

T2 - The XXI International Conference «Professional culture of the specialist of the future»

Y2 - 26 October 2021 through 27 October 2021

ER -