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This essay is one of ten in a special journal issue discussing a 2002 article, "Power and Weakness" by Robert Kagan, which assessed the structural underpinnings of foreign relations between the United States and Europe. Kagan's observations formed a double argument: First, that the relative power of the United States and the relative weakness of Europe frame the way Americans and Europeans approach international politics; and second, that ideas about the efficacy of power also shape the extent to which one pursues and uses it. Adapted from the source document.

In the article the author tells us about the religious essence of Russian
philosophy as its basic characteristic since in was founded in the middle of
the 19th century until now. Russian philosophy never existed or couldn?t have
existed in the European state of mind because it?s essentially a philosophic
interpretation of religious faith. According to the author?s opinion,
European philosophy, as a whole, has left the borders of the Christian
spiritual plain by making the anthropocentric principle of thinking the
absolute, which took it into positivism and nihilism. Russian philosophy
hasn?t left the Christian spiritual field and has kept a theocentric
(classical) type of thinking till the present day. The stand-point of the
believing mind which rejects transcendental, as well as any other self
foundation of the European philosophy. From the beginning until the present
day, Russian philosophy has been opposed to the Descartes-Kant?s way of
thinking. Western modern philosophy killed God intellectualy, and postmodern
killed the Man as well, moving its philosophy into an empty space of
?transindividual constructions?. Ivan Kirejevski founded an
ontological-gbnoseological model of Russian secular Christian philosophy in
the middle of the 19th century, and from that, later, other branches of
Russian philosophy developed: ontological-cultural (Danilevski, Leontjev),
ontological-anthropological (Solovjov, Berdjajev, Ern). Briefly, Russian
philosophy is what Russian national culture, based on Orthodox Christian
views, can say about the World and the Man using the conceptual language.