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Protestantism as a new "Europeanism" in Georgian writing of the "Transitional Period"


Author: Tamar Vepkhvadze
Associate Professor of the faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Georgian literature was enriched with translated artistic works, as well as philosophical, poetic and aesthetic works. Through them, Georgian literature became familiar with issues that were unknown to us before. Considering these issues, it is possible to characterize the typological relationship between European and Georgian philosophical thought. If we keep in mind that these or those works were translated according to philosophical-aesthetic interests, we can find out what kind of common worldview existed in us at the end of the 19th century. The "Transitional Period" (18th-19th centuries) from old to new Georgian literature was crowned with the creation and final establishment of bourgeois Georgian culture in the 19th century. In the context of Europeanization of Georgian philosophical thought, for us, the sources that form a common basis for both Georgian and European philosophical-aesthetic thought are very important. Determining these sources covers the internal development of Georgian philosophical thought as a whole. It draws a direct line from the modern European philosophical thought to the depths from which the Georgian philosophical-aesthetic thought also originates. It was on this basis that Georgian and European philosophical thought coincided in the mentioned era. That is why the Georgian figures of this era chose the above-mentioned literature for translation. This period is particularly noteworthy for the growing interest of a part of society in the Protestant worldview, which should be considered a manifestation of the "new Europeanization" of Georgian philosophical thought.