Chekrygin O., Nadeina D.A. —
The static Nature of the Absolute combined with the process Theism of God the Father in a new ontological perspective
// Philosophical Thought. – 2025. – ¹ 4.
– P. 85 - 110.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2025.4.73554
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_73554.html
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Abstract: This study examines the application of the dialectical method developed by the authors, which allows us to deduce ontological levels through the principle of mutual reflection of entities and their negations. According to this principle, each higher ontological level, passing through a double denial of oneself ("not-not-I = I-am-I"), generates a lower level of being through comparing oneself with one's own non-existence. This process illustrates the transition from the static Absolute, the First Principle, to God the Father. The reflection of the mind that has come to know God leads to the emergence of an immortal soul that does not exist in a material body, but in the transcendent world of the Spirit, in the Kingdom of the Father. The Father is ready to fulfill the will of those who are "born again" (John 3:5). Thus, human free will is realized through coordination with the will of God: at the request of his "children" born into Eternity, God changes Providence, and the world is transformed without the direct intervention of the Spirit in matter. The methodological basis of the research includes a historical and philosophical analysis of the basic concepts of the Absolute, as well as the application of systemic and interdisciplinary approaches. In addition, the work uses the method of analogies, which is based on conceptual and phenomenological analysis, as well as natural philosophical approaches that take into account modern achievements of natural science, including parallels with the principles of quantum mechanics. World existence, like all higher ontological levels, exists "inside" God, and not beyond him, as is often assumed in various philosophical systems. It represents a picture of the development of worlds that exists in the "imagination" of God. The worlds act as peculiar mirrors in which God contemplates Himself. These reflections acquire an independent and eternal life in the eternal "memory" of God, which is the Kingdom of Heaven, which also resides "inside" God, and not "outside" Him. At the same time, the development of worlds in God's "imagination" and their stay in His eternal memory represent two sides of the same process that do not interact directly. This approach also develops a consistent concept of the existence of the world as a reflection of God in Himself, and Salvation as the eternal abiding of a mature person in the memory of God, which is the essence of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The use of mathematical analogies in the interpretation of self-knowledge of the Divine Super-Being
// Philosophical Thought. – 2025. – ¹ 2.
– P. 26 - 42.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2025.2.73077
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_73077.html
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Abstract: In this article, the authors continue to develop a new ontological perspective outlined in previously published works, in which the descent of a Single Super-Being into the Super-Existence of a personal God occurs without any will on the part of the deity: being due to the freedom imputed to the Absolute to be or to be in both of these states at once, and the Absolute and its other Non-Existence, reflected in each other like systems of two mirrors installed in parallel create a world of many things through successive reflections in each other, similar to the negation of negation: not-not the Absolute = the Absolute itself, which revealed Itself and began to be a personal God, or, in the Neoplatonic scheme, the second ontological level of the existing Mind (Nusa). Further descent through the Neoplatonic levels of the ontology of Mind>Soul>According to the concept we are developing, people follow the same pattern of "negation-negation" of mutual reflections: The Mind, denying its own disappearance, will generate a Soul, the Soul will embody ideas into things so as not to disappear, which leads to the abandonment of the need to immerse ideas in the chorus. In this publication, the authors want to propose a new model for revealing the ontology of the divine through mathematical analogies. The use of mathematical and geometric analogies in the interpretation of divine existence is found more than once in history (for example, in Nicholas of Cusa), however, the classical experiments of "mathematical theology" were formed long before the cardinal paradigm shifts in mathematical science and therefore need a qualitative update of their application as an illustration of the ontology of Reality developed by the authors, as a self-knowledge of the Word generated by God-ideas about the world through the existence of the Cosmos.
Based on the conducted research, the authors come to the conclusion that successive acts of self-knowledge of Reality and the development of being in the ontological time of the observable universe occur in parallel, which is precisely reflected in the coherence of a pair of numbers-names: the imaginary number of the act of self-knowledge of Reality corresponds to the real number of the moment of time in the existence of the world. Thus, the authors conclude that the ontological time of the universe is discrete, and the existence of the world appears as separate frozen frames of the state of the universe at a time corresponding to a numbered act of self-knowledge of a Given. The scientific novelty of this approach is self-evident.
Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The concept of God as a Contemplative: cosmological, anthropological, and ethical-soteriological aspects
// Philosophical Thought. – 2025. – ¹ 1.
– P. 67 - 93.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2025.1.73209
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_73209.html
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Abstract: In this publication, the authors offer an experience in the theoretical construction of a cosmological concept based on the idea of God as a Contemplative. The specifics of this model are revealed in comparison with similar schemes from the history of philosophy. The author's approach is consistent with the principles of the New Testament revelation, as well as modern scientific data. The article shows a way to overcome the typical problems of classical cosmogonic concepts for European philosophy, starting from Antiquity. The article presents the problems of typical solutions to the cosmological question in European philosophy and offers the experience of a consistent model of the coexistence of God as the Absolute and the worlds generated by him, including material ones similar to the observable universe, based on the category of "contemplation". This category is briefly considered by the authors in a historical and theological context, then a general description of the new theological and cosmological model is given. The authors reveal the paradigmatic limitations of the philosophical understanding of God, focusing on the need to take into account the influence of natural philosophical beliefs of a particular era, which are reflected in religious doctrines (along with the personal experience of a particular thinker). In the second half of the article, specific conclusions from the proposed theological and philosophical concept are indicated: 1) cosmological conclusions (divine ideas and the way they are implemented in the world; the question of theodicy; understanding divine Providence); 2) anthropological (human phenomenon; changing approach to human rationality; characterization of God's will in relation to individual freedom); 3) ethical-soteriological (communion with God, divine revelation and salvation; comprehension of certain ethical categories within the framework of a new concept; ontological meaning of heaven and hell). The presented philosophical and religious concept of the "Contemplative God" represents a fundamentally new direction within the framework of religious and philosophical thought. This model is distinguished by its uniqueness and internal logical consistency, being free from the limitations and disadvantages inherent in previous philosophical systems. Its theoretical significance and originality can arouse wide interest in the scientific and philosophical community, opening up new perspectives for research in this field.
Chekrygin O., Nadeina D., Mezentsev I.V. —
The experience of the procedural interpretation of the absolute based on the teachings of Jesus
// Philosophical Thought. – 2024. – ¹ 12.
– P. 139 - 160.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8728.2024.12.72508
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fr/article_72508.html
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Abstract: This article is devoted to the consideration of the problems of conceptualizations of the Absolute that have developed in the history of European philosophy and the development of a new approach to understanding the cosmological issue based on the Teachings of Jesus.
The ancient origins of the classical developments of the question of the relation of the Absolute and the cosmos, the peculiarities of understanding the First Principle in medieval philosophy and Modern European thought are shown. Special attention is paid to the experience of dialectical conceptualization of the Absolute in connection with subsequent attempts to overcome it in deconstructivist and postmodern conceptualizations, as well as the experience of overcoming problematic aspects of the static interpretation of the Original in procedural theology.
The article shows that the history of classical philosophy left unsolvable the "aporia of transcendence" designated in Neoplatonism, not being able to positively philosophically explain the transition of the One to many, answering the question: how is something possible besides the Absolute, which is everything.
The vast majority of historical attempts to solve the stated problem represented a "swing" between personalistic and a-personalistic, theistic and pantheistic, static and procedural interpretations while maintaining the insolubility of the fundamental aporia by means of classical metaphysics.
This logically led to the "fatigue" of European thought from the standard conceptualizations used for centuries. The latest attempts to "circumvent" this problem of classical metaphysics, simply "avoiding" it or ignoring it, are also recognized by the authors as unsatisfactory.
The authors reveal the basic meaning of the concept of "absolute", formulate the fundamental cosmogonic and cosmological problems associated with it, anticipating the presentation with a historical and philosophical analysis. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the presentation of the author's version of the resolution of the "aporia of transcendence": The authors base it on epistemological grounds and an indication of the Teaching of Jesus as the main theological source of the proposed concept, in which the Super-Being acquires the mind, self-awareness and personality of God the Father, preached by Jesus through a double reflection of himself into himself from his own denial, non-existence. Generated in the "negation of the negation" of the Absolute, the Super-existent God, in turn, generates worlds as mirrors reflecting Him for Himself in the endless process of His self-knowledge in the Absolute. Ultimately, the article attempts to correlate the impersonal and personal discourses as applied to the Absolute, and to consistently derive much from the One without violating the fundamental principles inherent in the Original.