The Nature of Metaphysical Courage (Towards the 85th Anniversary of Academician A.A. Mikhailov)

Man is always trying to make the world obvious, objective and decryptable, but it is keeping being mysterious. Philosophy is immanent courage in being-true. Understanding professional vocation as a way of truth arising opens up a new perspective to contemplate this vocation from within the work itself, rather than from what it can give the individual. Man must strive to get rid of prejudices, metaphysical assumptions, and break free from feelings that seem obvious in or­der to see and interpret. The awareness of these issues is the subject and purpose of the presented research: to reveal way of Being in the fate and creativity of philosopher Anatoly A. Mikhailov through hermeneutic phenomenology. Mi­khailov’s thought lies in the reassessment of the epistemological question of knowledge, employing existential analytics to acquire genuine knowledge. Among all beings, only man poses such questions, therefore, it is from man that the presented research should start. Mikhailov posits the condition of knowing from presence as a way of knowing the world, deconstructing the metaphysi­cal dualism supported by the relational subject-object model. Since the role of the philosopher is to problematize a number of concepts that answer the initial question along with the rest of the tasks, it becomes pertinent to understand the position of this philosopher regarding the question of Being.