Friedrich Nietzsche in Marxist Disguise: on the Proportion of the Divine and Mundane in Russian Philosophy

The author of the article analyzes the disputes of the Russian thinkers at the turn og the 19th and 20th centuries, especially among the authors of “Vekhi” almanac and Russian religious philosophers representatives, and divides them in two groups ideologically opposed to each other. One group, striving to impossible, principally new world beyond the limits, considered it possible to ignore any boundaries. Such choice could be based on Nietzscheanism, as well as on religious motives – the “case” of Job of the Old Testament. The other group believed in the possibility of perfecting the existing world, in particular by improving the moral and ethic aspects underlying it. Ivan Ilyin belonged to the second group. Still in the course of Russian revolution the fi rst group as a mat5er of case prevailed – provisionally,Nietzsche in Marxist Disguise.