ABSTRACT
The senior Slavophiles included, besides Khomyakov, I. V. Kireyevski, Yu. F. Samarin, and K. S. Aksakov. Of the three, Kireyevski was most concerned with philosophy; the present chapter present a study of his work. The group of which Khomyakov was the leader and inspirer received the name Slavophile on the basis of an accidental characteristic. Its founders were not all Slavophiles, indeed, Kireyevski in a letter once very seriously dissociated himself from Slavophilism. Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevski was born into a highly cultured family. His father was a very well-educated man who was close to eighteenth-century masonic circles. Kireyevski, even more than Chaadayev or Khomyakov, may be called a Christian philosopher. He was a genuine philosopher who never at any point repressed the functioning of reason. Kireyevski connected doctrine to patristic anthropology, placing the distinction between outer and inner man the original Christian anthropological dualism.
