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Russian Responses • The Sartre Continues • A Dream Letter • Autonomous Writing • Missing Virtues • Good Breeding? • Revisions And Improvements • Deductive Inductive Reasoning • Infinite Ignorance • Open Ended

Russian Responses

DEAR EDITOR: You gave me plenty of space in your previous issue to air my views on Russian philosophy, but can I just make a few comments on that issue, and draw some interim conclusions?

Tim Madigan notes the prevalent belief that Russian thought is something non-Russians can’t appreciate. Most philosophers would want to throw their hands up at this, surely? Either philosophy pursues truth, or what’s going on in its name–in Russia’s case the relentless pursuit of national identity–has to be differently described. I have suggested in my own work that this pursuit of national identity is indeed the focus of ‘Russian philosophy’. This is not to deny its interest in a wider world. Also, it has many points of interest for non-Russian philosophers.

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