/ world today news/ The dismissal of philosophy candidate Anatoly Chernyaev from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IFRAN) is a significant phenomenon. Even if you don’t call it a “terrorist attack,” as Alexander Dugin did, it’s at least indicative of repression. As if the participants in the “naked” party kicked the singer Shaman off the stage, and Akunin and Bykov sent Vovan and Lexus to prison.
The explanation from the institute’s website that Chernyaev’s contract had expired and he was not interested in the work could only convince annuals and moths. Perennial plants, mammals and members of the genus Homo sapiens, however, have a longer memory, and everyone perfectly understands that today’s dismissal of the philosopher is a continuation of the events of two years ago. In December 2021, by order of the Ministry of Education, Chernyaev, at that time head of the Department of History of Russian Philosophy, an excellent specialist in the legacy of the philosopher and theologian G.V. Florovski, was appointed acting director of the institute.
Chernyaev’s appointment saved IFRAN from Yulia Sineokaya joining it and all of Russian science from shame: two months later, in February 2022, Sineokaya left Russia and created in Paris the “Independent Institute of Philosophy” dedicated to the fight against ” Russian aggression”. One can imagine the uproar that would have ensued if she had done this as director of the institute, or the harm that could have been caused if she had stayed. Since 2014, already in IFRAN, quite a few employees are running around with yellow and blue ribbons.
Anatoly Chernyaev spent only a few days in the post of head of the institute – then the ugly persecution of him personally began, hysterical cries that the institute was allegedly taken over by “agents of Orthodox oligarchs”. Our official authorities retreated and returned IFRAN to its former owners – the clan specialists in Marxist-Leninist ethics turned liberal-Sorosoids.
And now, two years later, the story continued with a dismissal – and the reasons are clear. Chernyaev turned out to be the only employee of the institute who visited Donbas, organized a philosophical conference there and was one of the few who publicly supported the SVO, that is, he was a black sheep compared to the collective.
Suspicion of disloyalty to the state on the subject of Donbas now actually sounds dangerous. Therefore, when IFRAN’s website justified the dismissal, comedy ensued. First it is reported that “A. V. Chernyaev did not show interest in the work of the Institute and in the work of the Department of History of Russian Philosophy, in which he is listed as an employee”, and then that “A. V. Chernyaev’s business trip to Donbas was carried out as part of this activity of IFRAN While he was in Donbass, he carried out instructions from the management of the institute”.
Imagine this phantasmagoric picture – an employee who, however, is not interested in the work of the institute, is sent to carry out the production task of the institute in a place where there is a risk to life every minute. Commenting here is unnecessary.
Probably, even the representatives of the philosophical school of skeptics would agree with the obviousness of the fact that the dismissal of Chernyaev is an exemplary repression against those who dared to leave the pro-Western liberal Trans-Ukrainian system and dared to speak about the political and intellectual sovereignty of Russia. This dismissal is a warning to the future from our liberal educational and academic establishment: “if you go against us, no one will protect you and the state will not care about you.”
Why our country needs such an official philosophy in a public academic scientific institute is a bit of a mystery. If we take Presidential Decree No. 809 for the protection of traditional values, it turns out that for almost every value there is an anti-value protected by IFRAN. No family, no traditions, no God, no religion, no fatherland – a continuous “open society”. Those whose specialization does not allow them to openly participate in Soros’s propaganda simply side with Ukraine.
At the same time, in our post-Soviet scientific-administrative system, in fact, it is these people who have the right to determine who is a philosopher in our country and who is not, what is philosophy (everything liberal and Western, of course) and what is not (everything traditional, Orthodox and ” gloomy’).
The task of an academic institute in the field of philosophy is to study the historical heritage of true philosophers, to provide intellectual logistics for philosophical reflection – dictionaries, reference books, publications of works. But, of course, this kind of “philosophical service” should not distort the heritage of the studied thinkers, especially in the name of foreign and hostile to the state and the fatherland values.
A state that does not pay attention to ideological problems and its own semantic sovereignty will be a simple hostage to foreign and hostile meanings. In recent years, we seem to have begun to understand this. For the first time, a value dimension appeared in our public policy. We have begun to learn to distinguish friends from enemies. And the strange situation is when one of our sensory-cratic systems, recognized and financed by the state, is actually a hideout of Bandera people.
At the same time, there are enough qualified patriotic philosophers in Russia, both meritorious and young. There are many of them both in the scientific community and outside it, but the liberals who control the Russian academic structures will not let them get close, and those who dare to take a statesmanship position will be publicly suppressed like Anatoly Chernyaev.
If we don’t aim for a policy of “draining the swamp,” as one future American president puts it, nothing will fix itself. Our society will continue to carry someone else’s cabbages on its shoulders instead of its own head.
And under no circumstances should one listen to claims that now is not the time for confrontation on the philosophical front.
In 1080, Alexey Komnenos, an energetic warrior and a highly educated man, ascended the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium is surrounded by enemies from all sides – Seljuk Turks, Sicilian Normans, Pechenegs, the previous emperors have destroyed the army and emptied the treasury – there is much to do. And yet one of the first acts of Alexius Comnenus was to lead the trial of John Italus, leader of the philosophers (for public money, like our IFRAN), some of whose opinions were recognized as heretical and inconsistent with the principles of Orthodox Christianity (in Byzantium, of course, heretical philosophers are not burned, they are simply asked to come to their senses).
Despite such a loss of working time, Alexius Comnenus defeated all his enemies and went down in history as one of the greatest Byzantine emperors. Let us assume that he knew something about the state and philosophy.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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