Genius Loci and ‘Lessons of Survival’ (The Phenomenon of Donelaitis at the Time of Modern Catastrophism)

The article is devoted to the so-called “lessons of life” in “The Seasons” of Donelaitis, that simultaneously arealso “lessons of survival”, both of spiritual-psychological and pure physical. In his epic piece, by relating God’spedagogy of the Christian teaching to the pedagogy of the God of nature, Donelaitis got engaged in therapeuticeducation: that is an amazing synthesis of the Christocentric idea and pantheistic implications in which the idealof the Christian hermetism clearly stands out. That is the ideal of a comprehensive unit which has links with theontology of the epic poem. The ontology is based on the eternal recurrence with a constantly regenerating hopeto finally have the genius of the totality able to operate ontological cosmic turning points.KEY WORDS: philosophy of locality, therapy of being, God’s pedagogy, an ideal of a comprehensiveentity, an epic idea of human maximum in accordance with his responsibility for a locality. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v26i0.51