THE EXPERIENCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPTS OF FAITH, REASON AND COGNITION BY THE THINKERS OF KIEVAN RUS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL TRADITION OF EARLY BYZANTINE PATRISTICS

Abstract

The article analyzes the influence of the philosophical and theological tradition of the religious gnosis of Byzantine patristic thought of the early period on the epistemological views of the leading Kievan Rus thinkers, viz. Kliment Smolyatich and Cyril of Turov. It considers the two main development lines of the idea about knowledge of God in the ancient Russian culture: the ascetic, monastic one (adopted by Feodosiy Pechersky, etc.) and the "secular", actually philosophical one (adopted by Kliment Smolyatich, Cyril of Turov, etc.). Special attention in the article is paid to the study of the correlation between the concepts of faith, reason and cognition in epistemological judgments presented in early Byzantine patristics, and their reflection in the philosophical works of Cyril of Turov and Kliment Smolyatich.