caa a22 4500 44537571X CHVBK 20180317143001.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11212-010-9135-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11212-010-9135-6 Kline George Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA aut Skepticism and faith in Shestov's early critique of rationalism [Elektronische Daten] [George Kline] Shestov's work can be summed up under six headings. Three are sharp contrasts, three are paradoxes. (1) First there is the contrast between Shestov the person, who was moderate, competent, and calm, and Shestov the thinker, who was extreme, incandescent, and impassioned. (2) Then there is the contrast between his critique of reason, his acceptance of irrationalism, and the means by which he attacks the former and defends the latter: namely, careful rational argument. Sometimes he argues like a lawyer (after all, he had a law degree from Moscow University). (3) Shestov speaks repeatedly of the "horrors and atrocities of human existence.” But his examples are always drawn from history or literature, never from his own life, although we know that he experienced much horror. (4) Nietzsche is the thinker whom he invokes most frequently, and most warmly. Yet, paradoxically, Shestov completely ignores most of Nietzsche's central themes. (5) Shestov's skeptical doubts are mostly directed at rationalism; he is not skeptical about the existence or benevolence of God. Yet he is explicitly skeptical about divine omniscience and implicitly skeptical about divine omnipotence in a metaphysical sense, though not in its ethical application. (6) Shestov has a deep faith that God can undo all the horrors of life, putting an end to all suffering. At the same time he knows that this will not, and cannot, happen, since the very idea of undoing the past, erasing its horrors, is conceptually incoherent. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Shestov nationallicence Rationalism nationallicence Universality nationallicence Allgemeingültigkeit nationallicence Laws of nature nationallicence Skepticism nationallicence Faith nationallicence Divine nationallicence Omnipotence nationallicence "All things are possible” nationallicence Undoing the past nationallicence Freedom nationallicence Individuality nationallicence Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/1(2011-02-01), 15-29 0925-9392 63:1<15 2011 63 11212 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-010-9135-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-010-9135-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kline George Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/1(2011-02-01), 15-29 0925-9392 63:1<15 2011 63 11212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer