Gogiberidze Mose

Gogiberidze Mose (August 27, 1897, village of Kvenobani, present-day Chokhatauri Municipality – October 10, 1949, city of Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan) was a philosopher.

From 1918 to 1922, he studied at the universities of Berlin and Marburg. In 1922, under the supervision of N. Hartmann in Marburg, he defended his doctoral thesis. In 1923, he began working at Tbilisi State University.

Among Soviet philosophers, Gogiberidze was one of the first to explore the relationship between philosophy and natural science ("Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Its Philosophical Foundations," 1924; "The Axiomatic Basis of Cognition," 1926).

Gogiberidze is author of several works: Historical Materialism (Chrestomathy, 1927), The New Philosophy of Karl Kautsky (1928), The Development of Problems of Materialism and Dialectics before Marx (1928), Science and Religion (1929).

He dedicated notable essays to N. Baratashvili's Merani, I. Nikoladze’s Chakhrukhadze, and the aesthetics of Rustaveli. He analyzed the connection between the worldview of the poem and Georgian Christian literature, as well as Christian culture in general. He offered interesting observations on the poetic language of The Knight in the Panther’s Skin. He also explored certain aspects of the works of Ioane Petritsi, I. Nikoladze, and Z. Paliashvili.

Literary works: რჩეული ფილოსოფიური თხზულებანი 4 ტომად, თბ., 1970–78 (ბიბლიოგრ. მე–3 ტომში).

Literature: უ რ ი დ ი ა  ბ., მ. გოგიბერიძის ფილოსოფიური მემკვიდრეობა, თბ., 1984; ცაიშვილი ს., ლიტერატურული წერილები, თბ., 1966; ჯიბლაძე გ., კრიტიკული ეტიუდები, [ტ.] 5, თბ., 1974.

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