Lev (Leo) Mikhailovich Lopatin (; 13 June 1855,

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– 21 March 1920, Moscow) was a Russian philosopher and former head of the Moscow Psychological Society until the formal liquidation of the society by the Soviet after the Revolution of 1917. Lopatin fell victim to the policies of Soviet reform, which caused widespread famine, and in 1920 he died due to malnourishment and exhaustion.History of Russian Philosophy, (2vol) pg 646 by Vasilii Vasilevich Zenkovsky; Translator George L. Kline Publisher: ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL (1953) ASIN: B000R0I5M

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Lopatin was a close personal acquaintance of Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher), Vladimir Soloviev, and he identified strongly with Soloviev's ideas. Lopatin is known to have been an ardent support and proponent of Soloviev's philosophy. Lopatin article on Soloviev's philosophy in the Russian journal ''Mind'', issue 25, 1916, outlines Lopatin's validation of Soloviev and also Lopatin's points of departure and areas of disagreement. Lopatin continued to clarify his philosophy in his two-volume work ''The Positive Tasks of Philosophy'' (1886). Lopatin created a great body of work dedicated to the subject of

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metaphysical libertarianism Libertarianism is one of the main philosophical positions related to the problems of free will and determinism which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics. In particular, libertarianism is an incompatibilist position which argues that fre ...

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*A history of Russian Philosophy (2 vols.), by Vasilii Vasilevich Zenkovsky; Translator George L. Kline Publisher: ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL (1953), ASIN: B000R0I5MS {{DEFAULTSORT:Lopatin, Leo 19th-century philosophers from the Russian Empire 1855 births 1920 deaths Writers from Moscow Platonists Moscow State University alumni Sophiology Academic staff of Imperial Moscow University

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