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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 24, 1963
Russian Beliefs Remain Basically Unchangeable
By Dolores Orman
The "vulgar, non-religious, scientific materialism" philosophy of Russia in the 1860's is present in Russia today, Peter Scheibert, professor at the University of Marburg, Germany, said yesterday at the University Lecture.
Speaking on "Origins of Soviet Thought in the 1860's" Scheibert explained that in the 1860's the people of Russia had no regard for history and religion, but continually looked forward in search of a new image based on a Utopian element.
During this period of Darwin, Scheibert said, people thought all the laws of nature had been discovered. The problem was to transfer the laws of animal life to the life of man as a social being in society.
SCHEIBERT SAID elements of this thought are found in Russian society today, the desire for social justice, to liberate man from his wants and help him regain his virtues.
Scheibert said there was a complete isolation of state and society in Russia of 1860. There was no public opinion and there was strict censorship.
People retired from public life with no desire to interfere in government activities, he said.
Scheibert explained that the nobleman of the period made a living off the serfs, thus having time for leisure activity. This situation in society became an object of condemnation, he said.
IN 1830's AND 1840's there were small circles in Russia who discussed Utopian ideologies, Scheibel said. They studied the ideas of such European philosophers as Saint Simon and Fourier.
"These philosophers believed that revolution did not only mean a change in the social and political conditions but a change of man into a new altruistic, non-egoistic being." Scheibert said.
Anti-bourgeois feeling developed in Russia, he said.
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"THE SEARCH of man for self-identification meant the removal of the 'immoral religion,'" he said. "What was left was a man as part of nature — a blank."
Man in this state, according to the philosophers, said Scheibert could be conditioned by outside forces. "The problem," he said, "was how to recondition man so he would become good again."
more perfect than traditional Christianity. Scheibert said.
"The Russian radicals of the 1850's were ready to accept the new thought of "vulgar, scientific materialism" as presented in such countries as France." Scheibert said.
The problems of man became defined through the laws of biology and nature, Scheibert said. The psychological problems of man were considered to be essentially sociological and physiological, he explained.
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"The picture of man as an animal in the 1860's was simple and therefore readily acceptable," he said. "Nobility and peasants alike were exposed to these new ideas in the university."
SCHEIBERT DESCRIBED the new Russian philosophic ideas of the 1860's as basically atheistic.
"Even the clergy wanted to escape their background and join the new society of non-religious scientific materialism," he said.
"Though the ideas were not consciously historical," Scheibert explained, "they were basically historical because they were the result of things in the past. There was a full range of tradition behind."
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Scheibert said that the Darwinian theory of survival of the fittest actually did not help socialism.
THE RUSSIANS did not realize this until later, Scheibert said. They then said nature meant the helping of individuals not the struggle between individuals.
Scheibert described the approach as basically ethical. It was adopted and enforced the power of the autocracy through political struggle, he said. "The thought became sanctified through the hero struggle."
he described the violent Nihilists as utilitarian moralists who wanted to do something for the revolutionary political upheaval.
Scheibert said this Utopian element in the Russian philosophy and the search for the new man and his image helped create a certain brand of Marxism similar to Marx's historical materialism.
"ACCORDING TO Marx," Scheibert said, "man is a being whose needs could be defined in terms of material needs. The material is the only existing reality."
The new Russian thought stated that man was essentially a socially conditioned animal, Scheibert said. Everything is nonexistent which has no social meaning.
"The inefficient social adaptation of men to each other was considered the only problem facing this new Russian philosophy," Scheibert said.
He said Russian thought has become more dependent on the pre-Marxian Russian radical thought of the 1860's.
"The more sensitive approaches in Marxism were put away by such as Lenin," he said.
"Today, revolution is put aside again," he said. "Russia is facing the problem of the impact of the new man in a new technically advanced society.
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