I. G. Burtsov’s Philosophical Ideas: between J. Locke and I. Kant
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The paper studies I. G. Burtsov’s philosophical ideas. Burtsov was one of the main representatives of the Decembrist movement and a respected specialist in military theory. In his youth, Burtsov was greatly influenced by the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and especially of J. Locke. This was because the organization of teaching in the Moscow Noble Boarding School, where Burtsov studied, was based on Locke’s pedagogy and philosophy. After the Napoleonic wars, Burtsov engaged in active military education and theoretical research in the philosophy of war and military science. His active work occurred in the period for choosing the further development of Russian military science. In continental Europe in the first quarter of the nineteenth century there were two main schools of military thought: the Prussian and the French. The development of Burtsov’s ideas would allow Russian military science to develop as an original branch of European military thought. Burtsov wrote his main theoretical work, Thoughts on the theory of military knowledge, in 1819 after private lessons with professors of St. Petersburg University, most of whom were followers of Kant’s critical philosophy. Some Kantian ideas we find in Burtsov’s works and in letters. Synthesizing the ideas of Locke, Kant, and famous European military thinkers, Burtsov created an original philosophical basis for the development of military science. This foundation was unclaimed because of a radical change in the social and political life of Russia in 1825.
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I. G. Burtsov, J. Locke, I. Kant, philosophy of war, military science, the Decembrist movement
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2019-06-28
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Луньков, А. С. (2019). I. G. Burtsov’s Philosophical Ideas: between J. Locke and I. Kant. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 35(2), 273–284. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2019.204
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