Table of Contents

The development of Plato scholarship in 19th century Russia: between ideology and science - education and research in the humanities; from an "Orthodox Ethics" to the pragmatism of reform and counter reform; compromise and conflict - the scientific community and the state; developments in the historical and philosophical sciences - historu of philosophy; trends in histiography; Russian Plato scholarship; the Plato question. Plato and Russian idealism - the Platonic impulse in the construction of a philosophical tradition: from "Integral Knowledge" to the "Ideal Real" - the Slavophiles and their successors; Plato, the "Father of Idealism"; on the necessity and possibility of new principles in philosophy, Ivan Kireevskii; concrete idealism, Sergi Trubetskoi; Plato as a contemporary of Kant; Kant and theological academy; Plato and Kant - the "plus" and "minus" in the European philosophical tradition, Pavel Florenskii; Plato's doctrine of reason versus Kant's theory of experience, Pamfil Iurkevich; the neo-kantian recovery of Plato. Plato as an impulse in Russian philosophy of law: reforming justice in late imperial Russia; teaching justice - between western science and domestic needs; past philosophies for a contemporary science of law - Plato and Kant as to paradigms in juridical thought; Plato as a philosopher of natural law/justice; Plato and/or Kant - duty versus the good; justifying the common good - from subjective to objective ethics; between Plato and Kant; law and society and the state; Russian liberalism - nostalgia for the ideal city?. Russians reading the republic: teaching the republic; interpreting the republic; confronting western scholarship - "Classical" versus "Modernizing" trends; the actuality of republic - education and the woman question; Plato, the teacher (nastoiashchii uchitel); sexual equality, solidarity, or a "Stud Farm"; a question of utopianism; terrestrial utopia; discovering the kingdom of God - the republic as a celestial utopia. A question of Russian Platonism: Plato's republic in a Soviet utopia; Plato, the "Father of Idealism" and Soviet historiography of philosophy; continuity and change in perceptions of Plato; conclusion - was there a "Russian Platonism?".