TY - JOUR
TI - Religion, Tradition and Freedom: the Religious Dimension of Pyotr Chaadayev’s Philosophy
AU - Augustyn, Leszek
TI - Religion, Tradition and Freedom: the Religious Dimension of Pyotr Chaadayev’s Philosophy
AB - 
	Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (1794–1856), the author of the famous Philosophical Letters, is usually regarded as a “paradoxical” conservative, a representative of historiosophy and a social thinker. In the present paper Chaadayev is discussed from the perspective of the philosophy of religion with special emphasis put on the following issues: tradition vs religion (the traditionalist’s standpoint), history vs religion, freedom vs religion, and an outline of the proposed philosophy of religion (or religious philosophy). The paper also touches upon typically Russian issues: Russian identity facing the West, and primarily religious Occidentalism, which was the position taken and elaborated by Chaadayev.
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 49, Issue 1
PY - 2016
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 1
EP - 19
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.16.001.4901
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/o-religii-tradycji-i-wolnosci-religijny-wymiar-mysli-piotra-czaadajewa
KW - Pyotr Chaadayev
KW - Russian philosophy
KW - philosophy of religion
KW - Russian conservatism