IMMORTOLOGICAL IDEAS IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY
According to the Russian philosophical tradition the idea of combination of the pursuit of physical and spiritual continuity in a person and the idea of eternity of soul can be traced. This led to the assertion that immortality is achieved, and it must be spread to the man as a whole. The explanation of this thesis was carried out in two directions. First, the physical death, interpreted as a destruction of all obsolete, was not excluded, but it took on a positive value as a condition for further improvement of the individuality (L. Karsavin, V. Soloviev, A. Platonov). Second, it was typical to study the question on the actual victory over death (N. Fedorov). Therefore, the development of immortological ideas and the question on the ways of victory over death in Russian philosophy led, on the one hand, to searching a positive meaning of death as a factor in the development of the individuality, and on the other – to the translation of issues into the natural science research fields.