'''Nicholas Lossky''' or Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Никола́й Ону́фриевич Ло́сский; [[December 6 ]] [O.S. November 24] 1870 – [[January 24]], 1965) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher who represented . His work expressed aspects of neo-idealism and metaphysical libertarianism of from the Silver Age of Russian pre-Revolutionary and later emigré philosophy, in what he termed intuitive-personalism--but deeply influenced by his own [[conversion]] as an adult to [[Introduction to Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox Christianity]] and his engagement with its influence in modern Russian thought. His book ''History of Russian Philosophy'' is a classic intellectual history of nineteenth- and early-to-mid-twentieth-century Russian philosophy of intuitivefrom an Orthodox Christian perspective. His most famous students were his son [[Vladimir Lossky]], an Orthodox theological writer, and the atheist-personalismlibertarian writer and Russian emigré Ayn Rand.
Born in Latvia to an Orthodox Christian father and a Catholic mother, he was expelled from school for promoting atheism. But shortly after the Russian Revolution, in 1918, after escaping from an elevator accident, he became Orthodox under the guidance of his friend and fellow philosopher Fr. Pavel Florensky.==Biography==
Forced out of his university faculty position Born in St. Petersburg due Latvia to his an Orthodox Christian faithfather and a Catholic mother, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia at was expelled from school for promoting [[atheism]]. But shortly after the invitation of Tomáš MasarykRussian Revolution, in 1918, and as after what he considered a professor at the Russian University of Prague in Bratislava miraculous escape from an elevator accident, he became part of a vibrant network of ex-Marxist Russian an Orthodox emigré intellectuals in Europe between the wars. After World War II he joined Christian under the faculty guidance of Sthis friend and fellow philosopher Fr. Vladimir's Seminary, then in New York City, in America, and later moved to Paris where he died[[Pavel Florensky]].
Drawing on German philosophical discourse in which he became engaged while working on Forced out of his faculty position at the University of St. Petersburg due to his doctorate in Germany before World War IChristian faith, he sought emigrated to articulate Orthodox Christian traditions Czechoslovakia at the invitation of personhood, epistemologyTomáš Masaryk, and cosmology in as a professor at the discourses Russian University of modern Western philosophy. His''History Prague in Bratislava became part of Russian Philosophy'' (1952) is an intellectual history a vibrant network of nineteenth- and earlyex-to-mid-twentieth-century Marxist Russian philosophyOrthodox emigré intellectuals in Europe between the wars. It includes a brief but in-depth survey of After World War II he joined the philosophical works faculty of FrSt. Florensky and Fr[[St. Sergius BulgakovVladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, examining in particular how the latterNew York)|Vladimir's sophic philosophy both drew on Orthodox traditions Seminary]], then in New York City, in America, and came in part later moved to obscure their ontological outlook. It also contrasts Soviet dialectical materialism with traditions of Russian philosophy rooted in ChristianityParis where he died.
Prof. Lossky's legacy includes the work of his son Vladimir Lossky, an Orthodox theological writer, whose philosophical background he helped to form. His most famous university student was the writer and atheist-libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand. She said that the elder Lossky was the only one of her professors in Russian whom she remembered, appreciating his teaching on classical philosophy while rejecting what she considered to be his otherworldly Christian mysticism.==Work==
http://enDrawing on German philosophical discourse with which he became engaged while working on his doctorate in Germany before World War I, he sought to articulate Orthodox Christian traditions of personhood, epistemology, and cosmology in the discourses of modern Western philosophy.wikipediaHis ''History of Russian Philosophy'' (1952) is an intellectual history of nineteenth- and early-to-mid-twentieth-century Russian philosophy. It includes a brief but in-depth survey of the philosophical works of Fr. Florensky and Fr. [[Sergius Bulgakov]], examining in particular how the latter's sophic philosophy both drew on Orthodox traditions and came in part to obscure their apophatic ontological outlook. It also includes a summary of his own work and that of his son, Vladimir Lossky, and contrasts Soviet dialectical materialism with traditions of Russian philosophy rooted in Christianity.org/wiki/Nikolay_Lossky
==Influence==
Prof. Lossky's legacy includes the work of his son Vladimir Lossky, a prominent modern Orthodox theological writer, whose background in philosophy and Orthodoxy he helped to shape. His most famous university student, while he was still teaching in St. Petersburg after the Revolution, was the writer and atheist-libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand, who also became an emigré settling in America. She later appreciatively recalled the elder Lossky as the only one of her university professors in the newly communist Russia whom she remembered, for the influence of his teaching of Classical philosophy on her work, but criticized what she considered to be his otherworldly Christian mysticism. (Despite whatever effect his lectures had on an undergraduate Rand, and the classification of his philosophy as reflecting a metaphysical libertarianism, his later political views after his rejection of Marxism and atheism have been described as Fabian Socialist.)
==External links==
*[[Wikipedia: Nikolay_Lossky]]
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/78575607/Lossky-Nikolay-History-of-Russian-Philosophy-1952 Lossky Nikolay: History of Russian Philosophy 1952]
*[[Wikipedia: Ayn_Rand:_The_Russian_Radical]]
http[[Category://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_LosskyModern Writers]]