RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE MAN IN THE "POSITIVE TEACHING" OF ARCHBISHOP NICANOR AND THE "UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE" OF HUN YI

The author compares the philosophical approaches to the human problem of the prominent Orthodox philosopher of the XIX century, Archbishop Nikanor (A.I. Brovkovich), and the Chinese scholar of the Buddhist monk of the early XX century, Hong Yi. Their desire to combine adherence to traditional values and ideals with borrowing a number of provisions of Western European philosophy is revealed. The article shows the fundamental possibility of comparing the spiritual and intellectual phenomena of Russian and Chinese culture.