Early modern · 1722–1794
Who did Hryhorii Skovoroda influence?
Students and legacy
Ukraine's wandering Socrates — read scripture and nature as one book and sought the inner man.
Hryhorii Skovoroda influenced Leo Tolstoy. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Hryhorii Skovoroda?
Hryhorii Skovoroda, a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin in the Russian Empire, studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and lived as a wandering thinker. His way of life and influence earned him the name "Socrates".
He wrote in a mix of Church Slavonic, Ukrainian and Russian, and most of his letters in Latin and Greek. His dialogues weave biblical questions together with themes from Plato and the Stoics. His first book appeared only after his death, and his complete works were not published until 1861.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Hryhorii Skovoroda influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Hryhorii Skovoroda.
- Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910
Two steps away from Hryhorii Skovoroda
The second generation
- Through Leo Tolstoy: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Contemporaries of Hryhorii Skovoroda
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hryhorii Skovoroda, with no direct line between them.
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
- Moses Mendelssohn 1729–1786
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 1714–1780
- Johann Georg Hamann 1730–1788
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
Hryhorii Skovoroda by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 12
- Wikipedia languages
- 47 — #28 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Hryhorii Skovoroda
- Who influenced Hryhorii Skovoroda?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Hryhorii Skovoroda.
- Who did Hryhorii Skovoroda influence?
- Leo Tolstoy.
- When did Hryhorii Skovoroda live?
- 1722–1794. The map files Hryhorii Skovoroda under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Hryhorii Skovoroda card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Hryhorii Skovoroda in 47 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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