ARISTOTLE IN POLYEIDETIC PROSE BY VLADIMIR KRUPIN
The prose by V. N. Krupin demonstrates complex interaction of speech positions adjacent to various philosophical and journalistic statements, not as ideological, but as eidetic, i. e. as standard of contemplation of the novelistic matter. The author calls this prose polyeidetic, which is not juxtaposition or conflict of diverse ideas, but a kind of study which form of contemplation proved to be correct and approved by the Church. Polyeidetic prose is to be compared with the regular work of any old-fashioned laboratory or with "brainstorming", but the difference is that the basic concepts and formulas are not revised or refined during the experiment, but are transformed from intuition formulas into eidetic mood of ascetic evidence. Aristotle is the most cited ancient philosopher in Krupin's prose, but Krupin does not rely on the primary sources, but on the works by A. F. Losev, on Church tradition and the educational canon. The maximas of Aristotle, which Krupin cites, are not moments of plot progress (the thoughts of conservative Russian religious philosophers were aimed at this), but a direct justification for the polyeidetic narrative. Krupin considers Aristotle primarily as a meliorated version of Plato, correcting Plato's doctrine on forms (ideas) in the direction of romance polyphony, adopting it to the creed of the Orthodox Church. For Krupin, Aristotle, not Plato, came close to Orthodox Christianity, and to the traditions of the Russian novel and Russian village prose.