THE PATRISTIC DOCTRINE ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS/SOUL AS A PROTOTYPE OF THE DOCTRINE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF LIFE IN THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY
This article discusses the patristic doctrine about consciousness/soul as a prototype of the doctrine of consciousness of life in the Russian philosophy. There are two branches of patristic doctrine in the Christian discourse: the doctrine of Ireney and the doctrine of Russian presenter of isihazm of ХV–ХVI centuries Nil Sorskey. Ireney discusses the gnoseological problems of the functioning of consciousness, Nil Sorskey – the ethic aspect of its. There is a deep connection of this aspects and there is a hole doctrine about consciousness/soul, which is a base paradigma of the doctrine of consciousness of life in the Russian philosophy. In the patristic doctrine about consciousness/soul the consciousness is not only organon of gnosis but the instrument of ontological transformation of the man. This character of consciousness may be founded in the consciousness conceptions of Russian philosophers and it make them original. It helps to understand some identification characteristics of Russian consciousness. That is actually very much today.