Nikolai Fyodorov
1829-1903 · Russian Religious Thought · Known
Fyodorov read the Christian promise of resurrection as a work order. Every human being who ever died is to be brought back in the flesh, by scientific means, at the hands of their own descendants. He called this the common task, and wanted science aimed at governing nature and abolishing death instead of at war and industry. Russian Cosmism as a school of thought begins with him.
Signature
The position Fyodorov is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Nature
- strongly leans Mastery
- Death
- Other
Positions on the 3 axes the sources answer
- Society
- leans Collectivism (11 on a 0–100 scale from Collectivism to Individualism)
- Meaning
- leans Inherent (75 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Nature
- strongly leans Mastery (0 on a 0–100 scale from Mastery to Harmony)
17 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Fyodorov refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Monarchy
What is your ideal form of government? - Highest Good
- Love / Service
What is the highest good? - End of Things
- Apokatastasis
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Knowledge
- Grounded in God
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Beginning of Things
- Creation ex Nihilo
What is the origin of reality? - Time
- Eschatological
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Economy
- Other
What is the ideal organization of economic life? - Authority
- Divine Revelation
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Death
- Other
What happens at death? - Role of Emotion
- Path to the Divine
What is the proper role of emotion? - Human Nature
- Imago Dei / Existence Precedes Essence
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- Ancestors / Posterity
What is your primary bond and loyalty?