Synergy as a key principle in Sergey Khoruzhiy’s synergistic anthropology

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Pages: 21-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/LIMO3047

Abstract:

The presented text attempts to highlight the main aspects that characterize and distinguish the synergistic anthropology of Sergey Khoruzhiy. The role of synergy as its structural element is studied. Starting from the meaning of the concept itself, passing through the central role of asceticism and Palamism, the meaning that the author puts into it is revealed, turning it into the basis of his anthropology. It examines how synergistic anthropology, developing a comprehensive concept of man, based on the spiritual experience of hesychasm, has an existential basis and perspective, significantly differentiating itself from other anthropologies. Synergistic anthropology can function as a comprehensive paradigm for understanding man, offering common points of contact and a language for contemporary anthropological discussion with different philosophical directions, as well as a new perspective on new anthropological, social and cultural problems. The study presents how, through the concept of synergy, Horuzhiy makes a contemporary reconstruction of hesychasm as an anthropological and spiritual phenomenon, shaping principles that are universally valid for every person. The theological understanding of man and the need for the spiritual practices of hesychasm, which move him along his ladder to God and to deification as an ontomotor, are highlighted.

Keywords:

Sergey Khoruzhiy, synergy, anthropology, practices, hesychasm, theology.

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