Nikolay Lossky
Nikolay Lossky | |
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| Born | Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky 6 December 1870 |
| Died | 24 January 1965 (aged 94) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Imperial Saint Petersburg University |
| Influences | Origen, Plotinus, Hegel, Wilhelm Windelband, Wilhelm Wundt, Vladimir Solovyov, Pavel Florensky |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Russian philosophy |
| School or tradition | Intuitionism |
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| Main interests | Personalism, ethics, Neoplatonism |
| Notable ideas | Intuitivist-personalism, gnosiology |
| Influenced | Vladimir Lossky, Nicolai Hartmann |
Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (/ˈlɒski/; 6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965), also known as N. O. Lossky, was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave his philosophical system the name intuitive-personalism. He spent his working life in St. Petersburg and, after his exile by the Bolsheviks in 1922, in Prague and New York. He was the father of the influential Christian theologian Vladimir Lossky.