DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-E012-2
Version: v2, Published online: 2002
Retrieved April 30, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fedorov-nikolai-fedorovich-1829-1903/v-2
Version: v2, Published online: 2002
Retrieved April 30, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fedorov-nikolai-fedorovich-1829-1903/v-2
Article Summary
Like many other major figures in the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of speculation, Fëdorov was not an academic philosopher, but an unsystematic religious thinker who sought working answers to the fundamental questions of life. Fëdorov’s basic question was: ‘Why do the living die?’ His answer, in short, was that we die because we neglect our God-given duty to regulate nature. Fëdorov’s life work was to formulate an activist approach to the problem of death, a ‘common task’ in which all people living on earth, all religions and all sciences would eventually be united in a universal project to resurrect all the dead.
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Young, George M.. Fëdorov, Nikolai Fëdorovich (1829–1903), 2002, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-E012-2. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fedorov-nikolai-fedorovich-1829-1903/v-2.
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Young, George M.. Fëdorov, Nikolai Fëdorovich (1829–1903), 2002, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-E012-2. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fedorov-nikolai-fedorovich-1829-1903/v-2.
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