Political theories, and all philosophical doctrines in general, have always been created under the powerful influence of the social situation to which they belonged, and every philosopher has always been a representative of one of the political parties which in his time contended for predominance in the society to which the philosopher belonged. (Chernyshevskii,
Anthropological Principle, 50).
It is Nikolai Chernyshevskii’s mission in his The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy (1860) to rid philosophical doctrines of any dependence on particular sociological and political circumstances and of any particular moral prescriptions that attend them. Chernyshevskii seeks instead to formulate a philosophy by reference to human nature and to human nature alone: hence the Anthropological
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Citation: Ellis, Charles. "Antropologicheskii printsip v filosofii". The Literary Encyclopedia. ; last revised 19 June 2012. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34647, accessed 03 May 2024.]
