Abstract:
Two famous Russian thinkers Nikolai O. Lossky (1870–1965) and E. Vasilievich Spektorsky
(1875–1951) had a lot in common: both were talented intellectuals, lecturers and authors of
many works on philosophy, history of philosophy, culture, politics and literature; both had
to leave Russia and settle down abroad, and continue academic and creative activities in
foreign environments. All these factors contributed to their friendly and intellectual communication which we want to pay attention to in this article.
The purpose of the article is to demonstrate similarities in how Lossky and Spektorsky
formulated and addressed ethical issues on the grounding of Christianity and Christianbased philosophy. Thus, we have chosen several aspects of their ethical systems which are
crucial for understanding the way of their moral thinking and which are representative in
terms of comparison of these two authors: general philosophical positions, grounding ethics in Christianity, absolute basis of ethics and the way it can be cognized, human freedom,
motives and goals of moral behavior, and moral evolution and the perspectives of humanity.
