Evald Il'enkov and world philosophy

Lev Naumenko

pp. 233-248

in: Studies in East European Thought 57, 2005.

Abstract

To ascertain the context of Il'enkov's philosophy, the author delves into the history of philosophy since the Sophists and Plato. For Il'enkov, philosophy is not an abstract science "about everything," but a study of ideas – forms which are identical for thinking and being. These objective and universal forms of thought are explained as products and schemes of human activity creating the world of culture and reified in its "smart" things.

Cited authors

Plato

Ilyenkov Evald