Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy
Prince Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (
Biography
Early life
Trubetskoy became an adherent of the British
In 1885 Trubetskoy graduated from
Career
In 1886, Trubetskoy became acquainted with the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, who held largely the same views about religion as Trubetskoy and became his close friend.[citation needed]
In 1890 Trubetskoy became Professor of Philosophy at Moscow University.[citation needed] Later he played a significant role in the Russian liberal movement; he was a founding member of Beseda.[1]
Sergey Trubetskoy was one of several philosophers who complained that there in practice was no real autocracy, as all the entanglement of government agencies made it unsure where the power truly lay; in 1900 he wrote: 'There is an autocracy of policemen and land captains, of governors department heads, and ministers, but a unitary Tsarist autocracy, in the proper sense of the word, does not and cannot exist'.[2]
In 1904 the Trubetskoy wrote of the conflict with Japan, contending that Russia was defending the entire European civilisation from 'the yellow danger, the new hordes of Mongols armed with modern technology', being one of many Russian academics seeing the conflict as a 'crusade', a war between civilisation and barbarism;[1] it led an 'educated liberal' to see the conflict as one against the hordes of Asia.[3]
Trubetskoy had attained the position of Professor of Philosophy at Moscow University by 1904.[1] In 1905 he was elected rector of Moscow University; but he died just a month later, of a brain haemorrhage.[citation needed]
Family
Trubetskoy's brother,
Vladimir Troubetskoi, a distinguished officer in WWI, exiled in the Soviet Union and shot and killed in 1937. His daughters and wife were killed there as well
Works and beliefs
Working in the same field as Solovyov, Trubetskoy sought to establish a philosophic foundation for an Orthodox Christian
The religious beliefs of Trubetskoy are sometimes identified as "Christocentrism", wherein the Church serves as a continuation of the
References
- ^ a b c d Figes, p. 168
- ^ Figes, p. 38
- ^ Figes, p. 169
- ^ Trubetzkoy, N. S. , trans. Christiane A. M. Baltaxe. 1969. Appendix III: Autobiographical notes on N. S. Trubetzkoy as related by Roman Jakobson, in Principles of Phonology. Los Angeles: The Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, p. 309.
Bibliography
- Figes, Orlando (2014). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 9781847922915.
Further reading
- Trubetskoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (1906-1908) (in Russian). History of Ancient Philosophy (История древней философии) at Runivers.ru. In DjVuformat
- Trubetskoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (1906–1912) (in Russian). Collected Works of Prince Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (Собрание сочинений Князя Сергея Николаевича Трубецкого) at Runivers.ru. In DjVuformat
- Trubetskoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (1890) (in Russian). Metaphysics in Ancient Greece (Метафизика в Древней Греции) at Runivers.ru. In DjVuformat
- Trubetskoy, Sergei Nikolaevich (1900) (in Russian) The doctrine of the Logos in its history (Учение о Логосе в его истории) at Runivers.ru. In DjVuformat
- N. O. Lossky, 'Princes S. N. And E. N. Trubetskoy', in N. O. Lossky, History Of Russian Philosophy (1952), p. 150–157.