Anton Madatia Garagashyan ( 1818 - 1903 ) - Armenian philosopher , historian , Armenologist , teacher . Founder of Armenian comparative historiography.
| Anton Garagashyan | |
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| Անտոն Գարագաշյան | |
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| Date of Birth | 1818 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | 1903 |
| Place of death | |
| Scientific field | historian, philosopher, linguist |
| Known as | Founder of Armenian Comparative Historiography |
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Biography
He lived in Constantinople . A member of the Mkhitarist congregation since 1836. He served as a priest, overcoming idealism , through deism he came close to materialism and atheism . He considered God as a fiction resulting from the ignorance of people, and religion as an obstacle to mental and moral development (Religion and Morality, 1880 [2] ). Dividing philosophers into materialists and idealists, he considered the history of philosophy as a search for a scientific method that corresponds to the nature of the object of study. Garagashyan assigned the main role in these searches to the materialists, calling the 18th-century French materialists “ revolutionaries of thought” (A Brief History of Philosophy, Constantinople, 1868).
Rejecting the doctrine of innate ideas, Garagashyan considered thought to be the result of influencing the senses of objectively existing objects, and reason as the concentration of developing experience (Reason and Criticism, 1886). He interpreted the figures of logic as an indirect reflection of objective connections (The Principles of Logic, Constantinople, 1864).
In his four-volume “Critical History of Armenia according to the Latest Historical, Linguistic and Philological Information” (1880–1895) and in his work “Reason and Criticism”, Garagashyan criticized feudalism from the standpoint of bourgeois enlightenment, seeing the decisive force of social progress in the adoption of new ideas by the people.
He also owns the following works:
- “The Art of Rhetoric ...” (Vienna, 1844),
- "Brief philosophy ..." (Constantinople, 1868),
- “Political, economic, and physical geography ...” (Constantinople, 1873) and others.
- "On Favstos Buzand," 1896, pp. 200-208. (In Armenian).
See also
- Atheism in Armenia
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1049521196 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Անտոն Գարագաշյանի "Կրոնք և բարոյական" անտիպ հոդվածը
Literature
- Philosophical Encyclopedia. In 5 volumes - M .:
- Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by F.V. Konstantinov. 1960-1970.
- Yerkanyan V.S. Armenian culture in 1800-1917. / Per. with arm K. S. Khudaverdyan. Er., 1985
- Shakaryan G.G., Philosophical Views of A.M. Garagashyan, Yerevan, 1958 (Abstract. Diss.).