to great heights in the reports of A. N. Radishchev. Here 

 is not the place to review in any detail Radishchev' s 

 significance in the history of Russian and world philosophy, 15 

 It is sufficient to say that Radishchev, whose ideas were 

 established under the influence of acute social dispute in 

 Russia in the second half of the eighteenth century, had 

 extended Lomonosov's materialistic traditions to Russian 

 philosophy. Radishchev represented the establisher of the 

 revolutionary-democratic directions of Russian philosophical 

 thought. He independently established and solved a number of 

 important problems about the relationships between material, 

 consciousness, the development of psychics and so on. Being 

 deeply and broadly educated, in particular in the natural 

 sciences, Radishchev saturated his main philosophical treatise, 

 "About man, his death and immortality," with numerous examples 

 from different branches of the biological science. Relevant to 

 the content of the present chapter, Radishchev' s discussions 

 hold particular interest. Those discussions handled the acute 

 conflict between the already obsolete ideas of preformation and 

 the developing theory of epigenesis. 



Studying Bonnet's report, Radishchev quoted the idea of 

 the unity of natural bodies ranging from the inorganic to 

 common human existence. Bonnet's chain of being which represents, 

 in his opinion, only an expression of "Law of Continuity," for 

 Radishchev acquired a significantly deeper materialistic meaning 



15. In 1949, 200 years after the day of his birth, 



A. N. Radishchev was widely mentioned in Soviet scientific 

 literature. It is possible to cite the book of 

 M. A. Gorbunov, PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL 

 OPINIONS OF A. N. RADISHCHEV and his article 

 "Philosophical and Sociological Ideas of Radishchev" 

 CUCHENYE ZAP. AKAD . OBSHCH. NAUK, 5, 1949, 

 pp. 36 - 38) and the article of I. Ya. Shchipanov, "Socio- 

 political and Philosophical Ideas of Radishchev" (from the 

 history of Russian philosophy IZ ISTORII RUSSKOI 

 FIL0S0FII, 1949, pp. 181 - 226). The scientific opinions 

 of A. N. Radishchev are stated also in: Kh. S. Koshtoyants, 

 OUTLINES OF PHYSIOLOGY IN RUSSIA, (Ocherki po istorii 

 fiziologii v Rossii) , Edition of the Academy of Science 

 USSR, pp. 37 - 43, and S. L. Soboly HISTORY OF THE 

 MICROSCOPE Ustoriya mikroskopa) , pp. 376 - 377. 



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