Metaphysics of personality in philosophical and anthropological views of the slavophils

The article is devoted to the problem of personality in the views of Slavophiles at the beginning of the XIX century, with an emphasis on the teaching of I. V. Kireevsky. The article shows the controversial influence of the philosophy of Schelling, Schleiermacher and the German Romantics, which is overcome by Kireevsky on the basis of patristic tradition. As the author proves, the ideal of individual self-realization is the leading one in Western philosophy, whereas the eastern ideal of man is based on overcoming individualism as a limitation on the way to unity with God. The entering of personality into the Orthodox Church, according to the Slavophiles, is the antidote of Western individualism. And we should find here the metaphysical foundations of the idea of personality.