Apollon Grigoryev's philosophy of religion as the basis of the native soil adherents’ ideal of the absolute

The article deals with the philosophical views of a poet, literary critic, essayist, and thinker Apollon A. Grigoryev in terms of his attitude to religion. It is demonstrated that under the influence of the transcendental philosophy created by Schelling, Apollon Grigoryev evolved an original religious, philosophical and aesthetic teaching that would later become the basis of the pochvenniki ’s (native soil adherents’) ideal of the Absolute. The principal notions of this wholesome philosophical system are the notions of the organic principle, life, nationality, heart wisdom, native soil idea, Orthodoxy as the faith of the Russian people, heart thought, truth, life and unchanged lofty ideal, as opposed to the concepts of rationalistic theoreticism, mutable or updatable ideal, permanent progress, mankind as a single integrated whole and Westernism. The article also treats the idea of the meek human type characteristic of the Russian people, based on the Christian idea of humility and opposed to the idea of the predatory or brilliant type.