Irodion Vetrinskii’s “Institutiones Metaphysicae” and the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (Part I)

Authors

  • Vera Pozzi National Research University Higher School of Economics. 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya Str., Moscow, 105066, Russian Federation

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. Vetrinskii

Abstract

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historical document, appears to illustrate the earliest reception and spread of Kantianism on Russia.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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Published

2019-06-24

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2018)

Section

WORLD PHILOSOPHY: ITS PAST AND PRESENT

How to Cite

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