Alexander Pyatigorsky. Memories of a genius philosopher

Philosophy can not have its subject. It can have anything on its subject. But this "anything" is a matter of choice. After all, philosophy, like thinking, is far from indifferent. Philosophy does not have its own subject, but it is far from indifferent to the subject. On the contrary! If a philosopher, choosing an object, is indifferent to him, then nothing happens. Simply uninteresting. This is for the philosopher always in one way or another will be a matter of life and death. To become a philosopher or even become it can only be one who in some way is a "philosopher". That's what Alexander Piatigorsky said ("The Philosopher Escaped," 2005).

The talent appeared

January 30, 1929 in the family of an engineer was born a boy who later will become an outstanding figure in the field of philosophy. His name is Alexander Pyatigorsky.

Alexander Mikhailovich graduated from the University of Moscow State University - the Department of Philosophy - in 1951. After university, Pyatigorsky was a teacher in high school, and then, in 1956, began teaching at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAS RAS). Already in 1962, Alexander Pyatigorsky received his Ph.D. in Philosophy thanks to his dissertation on the history of the most ancient Tamil literature. In 1963, Pyatigorskii accepted the invitation of the University of Tartu and participated in research on semiology. In 1973, the Russian philosopher migrated from the USSR to Germany. A year later, Alexander Mikhailovich moved to live in the UK, where he spent the rest of his life doing philosophy and religious studies.

Alexander Pyatigorsky is a philosopher who traveled a lot of countries with his lectures, in which various topics were discussed. In 2006, he visited Moscow. In the arsenal of the Russian philosopher from Great Britain there were topics that touched on political philosophy.

Free man

Nobody knows who Pyatigorsk was exactly. His versatility was impressive. But the main direction in religious studies, which attracted him, was Buddhism. It can not be said specifically that he himself was a Buddhist, but the fact that this philosophy was close to him is a fact. He was impressed by the fact that people of this religion accept things as they are, and give a greater tribute to the spiritual than the material. After filming in the film The Escaped Philosopher, Pyatigorsky said: "The main thing is not to resist ... Then those who did not resist, that is, they did not create a terrible field of false activity ..." Thus he agreed that the calm that is inherent in the representatives of the Buddhist Faith, is the most correct behavior of a person in the ordinary world.

Alexander Pyatigorsky did not like to speak out narrowly, he even mentioned in his lectures that he does not like many words, since they "save thinking". Serious communication was alien to him, and he allowed himself to speak not only witty, but also funny, despite the seriousness of the topic under discussion.

"Fast! Not a single superfluous word and not a single superfluous glance, "it was from this phrase that the legendary philosopher began to communicate with correspondents. His lectures and interviews were more like conversations with friends than with a person who can explain deep things. He was simple, but he understood and could explain complicated things.

Nothing can spoil the true philosophizing

Alexander Mikhailovich became the author of many philosophical books, he tried his hand at prose and even wrote novels. A person who possessed the gift of communication, decided to express his thoughts in a text written on paper.

In 1982 Merab Mamardashvili published a book called "Symbol and Consciousness. Metaphysical reasoning about consciousness, symbolism and language, "co-authored by Alexander Pyatigorsky. Books written by the Russian philosopher in the future became a statement of his individual, free thought. Many of the books received a wide resonance in the literary world.

Being not only an ordinary philosopher and religious scholar, but also showing himself as a culturologist, historian, linguist and scholar-researcher, the "speaking philosopher" was remembered for being a genius writer.

His books touched on various topics that I would like to discuss. Politics, the inner world of man, culture - all this was described in the simple words of Pyatigorsky.

In the book "What is Political Philosophy" Alexander Mikhailovich answers the question: "What is political reflection and what is the result of the decline in its level?" This edition is characterized by an abundance of incidental and plot lines on which political thinking is built.

The "free philosopher" was always concerned with questions related to the "journey" of man into his soul and time. On the basis of this, great novels were written: "Philosophy of one lane", "Remember a strange man", "Tales and dreams".

Not forgetting his hobby, which became the subject of many years of study, the writer Pyatigorsky wrote many books touching the theme of Buddhism. One such book is "An Introduction to the Study of Buddhist Philosophy." The book did not focus on Buddhism as a separate religion, rather, it represented this trend in the form of a person's lifestyle, a separate culture and art.

Simple utterances

Alexander Mikhailovich could express himself in such a way that his words sank deep into the mind of a man, making you think about each letter of what was said. The easy presentation of thoughts, which Alexander Pyatigorsky reports, - quotes his life. It was the entire life of the "escaped philosopher" that was remembered as a deep idea of existence.

"If you do not think, snout, you can only do so, not even act, but be. You will not have another being, "- the phrase that Alexander Pyatigorsky said during his meeting with Otar Ioseliani in 2002.

Each lecture, which the philosopher conducted, was remembered by the fact that there was a subtle humor that facilitated and discharged the general situation in the audience. "There is no inner freedom at all! It's not even an illusion! This is a lie! "- With this phrase Pyatigorsk began his lecture on" On Internal Freedom ", taking place at the New Economic School in 2007.

He died - but he lives in the memory of many

In 2009 in the UK, the well-known and many loved one Alexander Mikhailovich Pyatigorsky died of a heart attack. But his phrase about death, which was sounded in the film "The Philosopher Escaped," will be remembered for a long time: "A philosopher is afraid of death, like any other person, but the fullness of his philosophizing is possible only with inclusion in the sky. Death ... which is, of course, in the thinking of the philosopher "about life," the most important thing in life. "