Аннотация:Aristotle in Scholastic Philosophy Courses of Russia’s Higher Educational Schools in XVIII c.
by Sokolov, A.V.
In the beginning of the XVIII century the system of higher education started to take shape in Russia. This educational system had come to Russia from Ukraine, its nucleus was Kiev Academy, and main promoters were educated there church hierarchs. Educational content of this system was late medieval scholastic canon of knowledge, formed in XVI century in Western Europe, than reached Poland and from the latter Ukraine, where it was harmonized with Orthodox teaching. Period of high education proper started with two-year long course of philosophy consisted of four disciplines: dialectics, logic, physics and metaphysics. In time ethics was appended to them. All this disciplines were built on the corresponding Aristotle’s treatises. Compliance with Aristotle was stressed quite often in titles of the disciplines itself. This notwithstanding in some questions original Aristotle was substituted with theological interpretations. Almost half century long era of Aristotle’s absolute supremacy in philosophy courses was completed in the middle of the XVIII c., when by compulsory decision of Synod the textbook of Wolfian follower Baumeister was imposed in academies, collegiums and seminaries, and the epoch of Ch. Wolf in Russian philosophy started.