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The Philosophers’ Ship

In 1922 Lenin sent Russia’s best philosophers off on a cruise and told them not to come home unless they wanted to be shot. Alexander Razin and Tatiana Sidorina describe a ‘humanitarian act’ by a totalitarian regime.

Any student of philosophy would agree that philosophy has roots in mythology and in a particular sense arose from mythology. To be more correct, philosophy did not simply rise from mythology, but surpassed it and became a higher kind of general worldview. But mythology did not disappear completely after the development of philosophy. On the contrary, a mythological mode of thought continues to influence people’s outlook and behaviour. It can still be a decisive opposition to any form of more reasoned or more prudential philosophy.

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