«Easter was born with a man, and will never leave him...». N. Fedorov on the meaning of Easter
In: Solovʹëvskie issledovanija, Heft 2, S. 137-153
The article presents the experience of revealing N. Fedorov's philosophical system through an appeal to the theme and image of Easter. It is shown that for Fedorov Easter is the Central category of the philosophy of active Christianity and at the same time a symbol of fundamentally new choice of civilization. The connection between Fedorov's anthropology, ontology, and ethics and the Easter dogma is revealed. The lines of Fedorov's criticism of the anti-Paschal consciousness and the anti-Paschal vector of the world that has lost faith in the reality of the Resurrection of Christ are considered. It is emphasized that appealing to the Paschal dogma, according to which Christ rose in the fullness of two natures (divine and human), Fedorov brings the idea of divine-human synergy to the eschatological plan, extending it to the promise of the resurrection of all the dead. The symbolism of the Easter service Fedorov considers as the origin to such concepts as «extra-temple Liturgy» and «extra-temple Easter» It is shown that the category of paschality in Fedorov's philosophy correlates with the literary and philosophical tradition and simultaneously sets an active and projective understanding of Easter, which influenced the development of the resurrection theme in literature and philosophical thought in the last quarter of the XIX–XX centuries (F.М. Dostoevsky, V. Solovyov, S. Bulgakov, V.V. Mayakovsky, A. Platonov, B. Pasternak, et al).