Konstantin Ivanovich Sotonin (February 26, 1893 - circa 1944) is a Russian and Soviet philosopher, a specialist in the scientific organization of labor, the author of the concept of a “philosophical clinic” close to psychoanalysis .
| Konstantin Ivanovich Sotonin | |
|---|---|
| Birth | February 26, 1893 |
| Death | 1944 |
| Education | |
Biography
Born on February 26, 1893 in the Kazan province [1] . After graduating from high school in 1912, he entered the Kazan University in the Faculty of History and Philology. During his studies, he published several works, including “Investigative and Transcendental”. Made translations of texts by Zeno and Melissa for the Dosocratiques of Makovelsky . He was a polyglot. He knew Greek, Latin, German, French, English, Italian.
In 1916 he was left to prepare for a professorship in the department of philosophy. In 1919 he became a teacher of experimental psychology and aesthetics at the University of Kazan. In the twenties, he headed the psychological department of the academic center of the Narkompros of the Republic of Tatarstan , taught at the Eastern Pedagogical Institute.
Published a series of works that develop the ideas of Nietzsche [2] and psychoanalysis . He believed that philosophy should become a practical discipline and help individuals get closer to their own good, to get rid of all sorts of sufferings ("itch"). To help citizens should provide "doctors-philosophers" in the so-called. "Philosophical clinics." For incurably suffering people, the possibility of suicide was allowed.
At the end of 1929, he was arrested, accused of corrupting young people, promoting drug addiction and the impossibility of building a communist society (in terms of biology) [1] . Several articles appeared in the press in which Sotonin’s ideas were called “half-crazed nonsense” [3] . He was sentenced to three years in prison.
After his release, he took a job as a chemist in a village near Kazan and did not write anything [4] . According to others, after his release, he was once again arrested and convicted [1] .
Major Works
- Kant's Glossary: to three critics . Kazan, 1913
- Tables on the history of philosophy. Kazan, 1913
- Investigative and transcendental: history and metaphysics. Kazan, 1915
- Temperaments. Problems and hypotheses. Kazan, 1921
- The idea of the philosophical clinic: Introduction to the system of philosophy. Kazan, 1922
- HOT as the philosophy of the working masses. Kazan, 1924
- Socrates. Introduction to cosmetics. Kazan, 1925
- Psychogram of the judicial investigator // Intelligent Labor. M., 1925
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 “RUSSIAN THOUGHT”: Historical and methodological seminar at the RCA. January 26, 2007 (Not available link) . The appeal date is April 5, 2015. Archived April 9, 2015.
- ↑ Olga Chernyakhovskaya. Marginal Socrates: the theory of K. I. Sotonin // Logos. № 4, 2011
- ↑ Philosophical Clinic Sotonina // Red Tataria. 05/23/1930 (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is April 5, 2015. Archived April 5, 2015.
- ↑ Sotonin Konstantin Ivanovich (02.26.1893)