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Portrait of Nikolay Lossky

20th century · 1870–1965

Who influenced Nikolay Lossky?

Influences

Intuitivist of the given — knowledge as a direct grasp of reality in its all-unity.

Nikolay Lossky was influenced by Vladimir Solovyov. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

Who was Nikolay Lossky?

Nikolay Lossky was a Russian philosopher of idealism, intuitivism and personalism who called his system intuitive personalism. He worked in St Petersburg until the Bolsheviks expelled him in 1922, and then in Prague and New York. His son Vladimir Lossky became an influential Orthodox theologian.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Nikolay Lossky?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Nikolay Lossky

The longest documented line of influence ending at Nikolay Lossky runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Pyotr Chaadayev
  24. Aleksey Khomyakov
  25. Vladimir Solovyov
  26. Nikolay Lossky

Two steps away from Nikolay Lossky

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Nikolay Lossky

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nikolay Lossky, with no direct line between them.

Nikolay Lossky by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
89
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
22 — #82 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Common

Schools and lineages

Questions about Nikolay Lossky

Who influenced Nikolay Lossky?
Vladimir Solovyov.
Who did Nikolay Lossky influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Nikolay Lossky.
When did Nikolay Lossky live?
1870–1965. The map files Nikolay Lossky under the 20th century.
How rare is the Nikolay Lossky card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Nikolay Lossky in 22 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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