Philosopher
Pavel Florensky
Overview
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint. During the later twentieth century, statements had appeared noting a recognition by the Russian Orthodox Church of him as a saint, though it was later firmly noted that no such decision had been made.
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Philosophers who discussed Pavel Florensky
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- Sergei Bulgakov
- Vladimir Lossky
- Nikolay Lossky
- Nikolai Fyodorov (philosopher)
- Aleksei Losev
Ideas Pavel Florensky discusses
- Jesus
- Folklore
- Georg Cantor
- Princeton University Press
- Philosophy
- Joseph Stalin
- London
- Leon Trotsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- Mathematician
- Geometry
- Moscow
- October Revolution
- Physicist
- Saint Petersburg
- Polymath
- Religion
- Lyceum (classical)
- Rudolf Steiner
- Set theory
- Saint
- Sergei Bulgakov
- Semiotics
- Theory of relativity
Place in the tradition
Part of Russian philosophy.