Long 19th c. · 1829–1903
Who did Nikolai Fyodorov influence?
Students and legacy
Cosmist prophet of the common task: resurrect the dead and colonize the stars.
Nikolai Fyodorov influenced Vladimir Solovyov and Pavel Florensky. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Nikolai Fyodorov?
Nikolai Fyodorov, a librarian and teacher called the "Socrates of Moscow", started Russian cosmism, a forerunner of transhumanism. He argued for radical life extension, physical immortality and even the scientific resurrection of the dead.
In his "Common Task", science stands beside art and religion in uniting all of humanity, the dead included. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Solovyov admired him, and his ideas reached the rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the composer Alexander Scriabin.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Nikolai Fyodorov influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Nikolai Fyodorov.
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
- Pavel Florensky 1882–1937
Two steps away from Nikolai Fyodorov
The second generation
Contemporaries of Nikolai Fyodorov
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nikolai Fyodorov, with no direct line between them.
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1828–1889
- Wilhelm Wundt 1832–1920
- Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895
- Wilhelm Dilthey 1833–1911
- T. H. Green 1836–1882
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
Nikolai Fyodorov by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 6
- Wikipedia languages
- 27 — #46 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Nikolai Fyodorov
- Who influenced Nikolai Fyodorov?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Nikolai Fyodorov.
- Who did Nikolai Fyodorov influence?
- Vladimir Solovyov and Pavel Florensky.
- When did Nikolai Fyodorov live?
- 1829–1903. The map files Nikolai Fyodorov under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Nikolai Fyodorov card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Nikolai Fyodorov in 27 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Friedrich Engels 1820–1895
- Søren Kierkegaard 1813–1855