Milestones and main stages of F.A. Stepun’s philosophical quest

The purpose of the research. The article is devoted to a brief overview of the philosophical and socio-political views of F.A. Stepun: in the pre-revolutionary and emigrant periods of his life. In the first stage of his work, the conceptual basis of the neo-Kantian theory of culture is traced. The philosopher’s views were aimed at finding the basic values of life, introducing the individual and society to truth, goodness, beauty, freedom, and spiritual self-improvement. The second period of Stepun’s life is associated with a deep analysis of the socio-political processes taking place in Soviet Russia, the need to understand the origins and causes of the Russian revolution as a deeply national phenomenon, but not shifting responsibility to external circumstances. He believed that understanding the meaning of the Russian revolution was impossible without understanding its national and religious roots. Thinker compare Russia and Germany in the period of most acute political crisis, with the coming to power of authoritarian leaders, analyzing the processes of the second world war, tried to find a way out of catastrophism era panslavism peoples. F.A. Stepun focused on the spiritual component of Russian Orthodox culture, saw the way out of the ideological crisis in a unified history of the peoples, drawing on the traditions of Russia.