Filozofija i drustvo 2012 Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages: 1-20
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1201001V
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Orthodox ethic and the spirit of socialism: Towards substantiation of the hypothesis
Vladimirovič-Zabaev Ivan (Bogoslovski fakultet Pravoslavnog svetotihonovskog humanitarnog univerziteta, Moskva, Rusija)
The article traces possible channels of influence of a religious factor on
the formation of a specific Russian version of socialism. Using the logics of
the M. Weber’s work “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, I.
Zabaev reveals the categories that played a dominating role in the people’s
consciousness in the pre-revolutionary Russia. According to his conclusion,
these categories were “obedience” and “resignation”. It was obedience and
resignation that assured the salvation (main value in Orthodoxy) of an
Orthodox person. In everyday life such orientations were easily transformed
into the readiness to obey the “superior”. Once elaborated, they turned to be
quite stable and, being separated from their religious roots, ensured a sort
of asceticism on the secular path.
Keywords: Protestant ethics, Orthodox ethics, Imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, priests, Russian monastic culture, officials
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