Irodion Vetrinskii’s “Institutiones Metaphysicae” and the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (Part I)
Keywords:
Philosophizing at Russian Theological Academies, Russian Enlightenment, Russian early Kantianism, St. Petersburg Theological Academy, history of Russian philosophy, history of metaphysics, G.I. Wenzel, I. Ya. VetrinskiiAbstract
The author explores the “Institutiones Metaphysicae” (1821), the textbook by Irodion Yakovlevich
Vetrinskii, professor at St. Petersburg Theological Academy. “Institutiones”, so far ignored as a
historical document, appears to illustrate the earliest reception and spread of Kantianism on Russia.
The paper deals with Vetrinskii’s considerations in the first part of the textbook concerning the
status of metaphysics. The author also defines the sources used by Vetrinskii, namely J.G. Daries’s
“Elementa Metaphysices”, F.S. Karpe’s “Institutiones philosophiae dogmaticae”, and G.I. Wenzel’s
“Elementa metaphysicae et anthropologiae”. The last, the author concludes, proves to be the most
congenial to Kant’s philosophy.
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2019-06-24
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WORLD PHILOSOPHY: ITS PAST AND PRESENT
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Pozzi, V. . (2019). Irodion Vetrinskii’s “Institutiones Metaphysicae” and the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (Part I). History of Philosophy, 23(1), 56-66. https://hp.iphras.ru/article/view/3080