20th century · 1882–1937
Who influenced Pavel Florensky?
Influences
Priest-scientist of the Silver Age: icon theology, paradox, and the pillar of truth.
Pavel Florensky was influenced by Nikolai Fyodorov and Vladimir Solovyov. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Pavel Florensky?
Pavel Florensky was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian and philosopher, and also a mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. He is venerated as a new martyr, though the Russian Orthodox Church has made no formal decision to recognise him as a saint.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Pavel Florensky?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Nikolai Fyodorov 1829–1903
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
The line of teachers behind Pavel Florensky
The longest documented line of influence ending at Pavel Florensky runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Pyotr Chaadayev
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Pavel Florensky
Two steps away from Pavel Florensky
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Pavel Florensky
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Pavel Florensky, with no direct line between them.
- Karl Jaspers 1883–1969
- György Lukács 1885–1971
- Ernst Bloch 1885–1977
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Semyon Frank 1877–1950
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
Pavel Florensky by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 89
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 37 — #63 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
- Russian religious renaissance: Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Semyon Frank, Nikolay Lossky, Lev Shestov
Questions about Pavel Florensky
- Who influenced Pavel Florensky?
- Nikolai Fyodorov and Vladimir Solovyov.
- Who did Pavel Florensky influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Pavel Florensky.
- When did Pavel Florensky live?
- 1882–1937. The map files Pavel Florensky under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Pavel Florensky card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Pavel Florensky in 37 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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