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Nicholas Onufrievich Lossky

Nikolay Lossky
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From the bookcover Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical
Born Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky
6 December 1870
Krāslava, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died 24 January 1965
Paris, France
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Russian philosophy
School Intuitionism
Main interests
Personalism, Ethics, Neoplatonism
Notable ideas
Intuitivist-Personalism, Gnosiology

Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (/ˈlɒski/; Russian: Никола́й Ону́фриевич Ло́сский; 6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave his philosophical system the name intuitive-personalism. Born in Latvia, he spent his working life in St. Petersburg, New York, and Paris. He was the father of the influential Christian theologian Vladimir Lossky.

Lossky was born in Krāslava, Latvia (then in the Russian Empire). His father, Onufry Lossky, had Belarusian roots (his grandfather was a Greek-Catholic Uniate priest) and was an Orthodox Christian; his mother Adelajda Przylenicka was Polish and Roman Catholic. He was expelled from school for propagating atheism.

Lossky undertook post-graduate studies in Germany under Wilhelm Windelband, Wilhelm Wundt and G. E. Müller, receiving a Master's degree in 1903 and a Doctorate in 1907.


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