Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (2)
- Authors
- Pivovarov, Daniil V.
- Contact information
- Pivovarov, Daniil V.: Ural Federal University named after B.N. Yeltsin, 51 Lenina, Ekaterinburg, 620083 Russia; e-mail:
- Keywords
- sociocentric religion; monism and pluralism; scientism; ascientism; scient; ascient; cult of a chosen scientist
- Abstract
The article discusses two themes: the first one is the concept of scientism as the specific form of scientific religiousness; the second one is a cult of a chosen scientist as a version of scientism. Usually scients allocate scientific geniuses with exclusively positive angelic properties, and ascients, on the contrary, find out in geniuses of any science only negative demonic features. The author puts forward a hypothesis, according to which the scientific genius in the maximal degree personifies a human nature, and this nature in an equal proportion is made by the beginnings of goods and harm, angelic and devil attributes. The given dialectic assumption is concretized in the text on an example of the analysis of the cult of Sir Isaac Newton.
- Pages
- 163-170
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9602
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