Russian Russian Cosmos Inside: Spiritual Values in the History of Russian Culture through the Prism of Russian Philosophy

The article attempts to conceptualize and concretize the phenomenon of spiritual values, revealing the specifics of their understanding by Russian (mainly religious) philosophers. Spiritual values differ in a broad sense (openness and inclusiveness) and in a narrow sense (faith and religious tradition). Openness is considered on three levels: 1) openness to another person (V.S. Solovyov‘s philosophy of love, S.L. Frank‘s philosophy of dialogue, M.M. Bakhtin, personalism), 2) openness to other cultures (F.M. Bakhtin’s idea of the universal responsiveness of the Russian people). Dostoevsky), 3) openness to space in its spatial and metaphysical sense (space, the beauty of earth as a topos of Russian medieval thought, the idea of landscape thinking by D.S. Likhachev, the cosmism of N.F. Fedorov, holy Russia as a cosmic category in the assessment of S.S. Averintsev, etc.). Faith is considered through the dialectic of experienced communion with God and its other (abstract theology and nominal religiosity) in the works of I.V. Kireevsky, S.L. Frank, S.I. Fudel and others. The conclusion is drawn that in the context of the history of Russian thought, spiritual values can be conceptualized through the category of existentials.