What name did Leo Tolstoy's worldview receive? Meanings and values ​​of the Russian worldview in the works of Leo Tolstoy

Worldview of Leo Tolstoy

First hour

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In life, it is much easier for all of us to say “no” than “yes”.

Standing even in the most everyday dilemma, we already know what we don’t like, and we feel embarrassed as soon as we are asked a direct question: “What would you like? What exactly? What are you claiming and what can you offer?

No, it comes easily and quickly. Yes, it comes with difficulty and belatedly. And in everything: in art, where we easily distinguish the ugly, without ourselves being able to create the beautiful; in science, where there are downright masters at fishing out other people’s mistakes, capable of instilling incredible fear in others through criticism, but rarely achieving anything themselves; in politics, where there is never a shortage of criticism, but there is always a shortage of creative ideas, where the most inveterate revolutionaries appear creatively completely fruitless if it suddenly comes to creation.

I will note, however, that in criticism, in denial, in “no,” a person is often, if not very often, right; in something positive, in affirmation, in “yes” - he most often succumbs to the brilliance of false ideas, the deceptive light of will-o-the-wisps, temptations - he gets confused, fussing.

Why? Because the bad and the evil cry out furiously and thereby betray themselves, while the good, the beautiful and the true are mysteriously silent and thereby hamper a person in his quest.

Evil is like a stinking mushroom: even the blind can find it. And good is like the Eternal Creator: it is given only to true contemplation, pure vision, and whoever does not have a spiritual gaze rushes after the motley world of his whims, deceptive illusions, flashy chimeras and falls into the trap of his “yes”.

Leo Tolstoy is one of those rare exceptions in the history of culture who did just the opposite: he contemplated the good and was right in his “yes”; Of course, he could not help but see what was bad or almost bad in reality, then he indulged in indignation and, not having a sober, clear view of the historical problems of human existence, threw the baby out with the bathwater and became confused in his “no”.

What he stood for and what he proposed was true and good; here he was right; but what he rejected and forbade was partly bad and evil, and partly justified, necessary, courageous, great, beautiful; he was unfair, but he did not want to know about this injustice. In his “yes” he was gifted with depth and clairvoyance; in its “no” - myopia, and perhaps blindness.

But since he lived, thought and preached as a monolithic organism, he wove his false, erroneous “no” into his true and sincere “yes,” thereby harming it, distorting the positive in his worldview, reconstructing with his incorrect, harmful philosophy.

He was never a “decadent,” as he is sometimes called out of misunderstanding; never departed from the source of good; remained faithful to the contemplation of the heart characteristic of the Orthodox, but the originality of his artistic creativity, as a result of which he did not see and was unable to reflect the character of spiritual and intellectual natures; a penchant for rational reasoning, a naive belief in the power of irrefutable logic and philosophical amateurism - made him consistent doctrinaire of his “yes» , an unyielding theorist of negation, a kind of moralist and preacher of cultural nihilism.

In my last (summer) lecture on Tolstoy as the author of the epic novel “War and Peace,” I made an attempt to show all the origins of this unique worldview and the motives for its formation. Already in this grandiose work of his, Tolstoy appears and is perceived by us as a moralist and anarchist. I tried to show that this epic and poetic work is at the same time an artistically imperfect great work of art, and a huge canvas of Russian national life, and a philosophy of life expressed in artistic form.

This philosophy, I said, disrupts the epic course of events in the novel; read in his images, illustrated by them; modifies and distorts artistic contemplation and its embodiment; and often completely pushes the artist aside, clearly declares himself, comes to the forefront of the narrative and in an open, and sometimes rude form, gives free rein to the arguments of reason.

This philosophy of life, I said then, does not accept great, complex, deep, contradictory, passionately thinking natures, impoverishes them, elevates the crowd man and the most ordinary soul with all its attributes.

Tolstoy as a contemplative artist and Tolstoy as an observer and prosaic reasoner interfere with each other. Rational thinking has its own fixed ideas, and it strives in every possible way to realize them. But these are all negative ideas: great men, outstanding personalities, rulers, state politicians are compromised, insulted, and appear as petty, lying, imaginary figures.

Moral and artistic antipathy takes the floor, trying to set the tone.

Tolstoy is good at simple, spontaneous natures. He loves them, cherishes them, portrays them magnificently; he is a master of instinct, a clairvoyant of primitive, spontaneous, living by ancestral impulses, unremarkable natures.

This is his artistic act: he is drawn to the element of primitivism, not burdened, not enriched by spiritual culture.

For him, the natural instinct of the race is the main reality in man, and the instinct of the crowd as a self-sufficient force is the main reality of history.

Even then, I said, this fundamental concept of his existed, i.e. long before his ideological crisis. Even then he was a democrat of the instinct of the crowd, and not of the political form; Even then he was an anarchist in his views on history.

This means that the crisis that broke out later began to mature in him even then, causing a mental and spiritual revolution, and only then broke free and revealed itself in his moral and religious worldview.

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It is well known that in the 70s of the 19th century the great writer experienced a severe spiritual breakdown. His advance is noticeable, by the way, not only in War and Peace, but also in his very first excellent works. In the youthfully tender, fragrant story “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”, the little hero (Nikolenka Irtenyev) is prone to annoyingly boring reflection, to pedantry in observing himself.

In Count Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace, in Levin (in Anna Karenina), this inclination becomes a leading and fate-determining trait.

To a certain extent, anticipating the life path of Tolstoy himself, both heroes experience some disappointment in life, and above all, the powerlessness to give a clear, understandable answer to the acute question of good and evil. And this is already a kind of spiritual failure - they fail to live a “thorough life”, “in beauty, completeness and perfection.”

As if driven by the spirit of Erinyes, their consciousness is looking for a place of moral peace, satisfaction from what they have done righteously, freedom from secret reproaches of conscience. And so, both are looking for a way out in physical labor, in some kind of simplification of life.

Two stories - "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and "The Kreutzer Sonata" - try to bring the problems of death and marriage closer to the human conscience and fail.

It is curious, almost shocking, to watch how a revolution is taking place in this huge, titanic soul.

Between 45 and 60 years of life, a person is already a different person, without the same attitudes, of course, but with a new way of thinking and an ideology that revises everything.

This way of thinking can be attributed to the fact that feeling takes precedence over will and reason, gains power, begins to lead, and gives shape to life. When feeling becomes autocratic, as if excluding everything else (including reason and will), and begins to behave in a monopolistic-totalitarian manner, the following danger arises: the mood of feelings at the decisive moments of the existence of an individual or a people can lead to blindness of mind, to weakening of will, to loss of the right guidelines.

After all, feeling as such is much deeper than imagination, thinking and will; but it fundamentally deteriorates and withers if it is fenced off from other spiritual potentials and opposes itself to them in some kind of self-indulgence.

A feeling without reason turns into unbridled passion, which contributes to the viscosity of the soul and spinelessness. A feeling without will becomes objectless, aimless, formless, unproductive. A feeling without imagination ends in rigidity, detachment from reality, and consumes itself in hopelessness.

Reason, on the contrary, restrains the feeling, shapes it, makes it meaningful, purifies it and thereby deepens it. Will disciplines feeling, gives it purpose, direction and creative power. Imagination gives the feeling freedom of flight, soaring, contemplation, freedom to choose a truly creative path.

Feeling and heart mean a lot in human life; so many; after all, from them flows a gracious flow of creative, healing, all-penetrating and comforting love. Reason without love is dry, callous and cynical. Will without love is greedy, power-hungry, arrogant, and cruel. Fantasy without love is rootless, selfish, insatiable.

But - feeling and heart without mind and will are sentimental; and in fact, Leo Tolstoy appears in his worldview as an exponent and ideologist of sentimentality.

Sentimentality is the violent scope of a groundless, pointless and formless feeling that is content with itself, reveling in itself, trying to bring blind compassion to life.

Sentimentality is pointless soullessness, indulging in subjective moods. She does not know how to love strongly, with all her heart, she lacks determination, the courage to take responsibility, she lacks assertiveness in the fight for good.

The sentimental soul does not understand that God is more than man, and that humanity is not the least important among human virtues and reason. And this is exactly what should be understood, for example, politics; for the essence of the state and the rule of law rests on a clearly defined, reasonable unwavering will.

But it is precisely this decisive strength of character, which is called upon to lead, by creating, and, by leading, to create, that Tolstoy’s doctrine condemns and undermines.

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Tolstoy begins with the social injustice of the bourgeois structure of life: rich and poor, educated and uneducated; boss and subordinate, ruler and subject, fattening and hungry - both unfair and unbearable; and must be eliminated.

He looks a little deeper and sees that in general, in the social structure and culture in the history of mankind, approximately the same principles have always dominated: the few at the top and the many at the bottom; few created order and culture, many carried within themselves the undeveloped prerequisites for this. But Tolstoy does not accept this. He contrasts all the social and political manifestations of world history with his sovereign, moral “no,” remaining extremely consistent: if culture is conceived only in this way, well, let it disappear; let only that which everyone can do and that is accessible to everyone arise and exist; what is accessible to a few has no right to exist.

Spiritual culture according to Tolstoy means the presence of an elite, inequality, i.e. injustice. Spiritual culture is the top, subordination, law, court, state, private property, money, war, i.e. - selfishness, struggle, coercion, hatred, prison, execution. So, spiritual culture is immoral; and everything that it presupposes, everything connected with it, is subject to condemnation and overthrow. This means that science, art, church, politics, private property - things that only a few know a lot about and achieve success in, everything is nonsense, and everything must disappear.

Love is the motto, the solution to the problem, he says. Love - the word of Christ - is forgotten; and now the time has come to restore the power of this word, this is salvation.

When Tolstoy talks about Christianity, he means his own interpretation of it. With the naive, daring confidence and enthusiasm of an amateur, he sets about a new reformation of Christianity and cleanses the Christian faith of everything that he considers inappropriate, unclear and harmful.

His method is surprisingly simple: he crosses out, subjects to ridicule and mercilessly caustic analysis everything that he considers unnecessary.

Christianity becomes his morality of total love, and this morality itself is the absolute criterion of good and evil, the only support in resolving social problems. Tolstoy demands unconditional love for one's neighbor; the rest doesn't count.

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At the center of his philosophical interests is the problem moral perfection of man. Moral experience reveals to him the meaning of life as such, his entire Christian worldview is built on a sense of morality, that very morality that is now above everything and has the right to pass judgment on everything: on religious experience, on impulses to knowledge, on art, on legal consciousness, on love for the Fatherland.

In the second half of his life (1880-1910), after a radical revolution took place in his worldview and he comprehended the conclusion of “earthly wisdom,” moral things were accomplished for him the only, self-sufficient value of life, in comparison with which everything else lost all value.

His entire philosophy henceforth boiled down to morality. And this morality had two sources: compassion, which he calls “love,” and abstract, resonant reason, which he calls reason.

Compassion feeds his morality; and reason pushes towards formal theorizing. Any other matter is unacceptable, as imaginary or false. Any deviation from the strictest logic is considered a dishonest trick or sophistry.

As a result, his entire doctrine can be reduced to the following: “man is called to love; this means that he should have compassion for all those who suffer; but for this it is necessary to educate a person; sensual love is sin and dirt; Only compassionate love is pure and good; therefore, a person is called to abstinence, also in relation to alcohol and tobacco; must work physically and in this way earn his bread, since any other work is appearance and deception, and only physical labor will teach him a righteous, simple peasant way of life - in the sweat of his brow, with calluses on his hands. Everything else, no matter what, is untrue, an imaginary value that is not worth talking about.”

That's all that is meant by the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy. And what is done according to this philosophy is pure exploitation of its didactic theses, which triumphantly elevates its own consistency and its moral uncompromisingness to the highest level.

It is interesting and instructive to observe how this moral-theoretical sequence, like a whirlwind sweeping away everything in its path, acts in the field of culture.

Here you soon become convinced that the core of this philosophy of “no” is the same delusion that was once revealed to us in the novel “War and Peace.” It can be briefly and simply expressed as follows: “what I do not see does not exist; what I cannot imagine is neither important nor valuable; What I don’t understand is nonsense; what outrages me is evil; whatever saves my soul is good.”

This point of view can (together with Blaner) be called autism (autos in Greek means itself), i.e. closure within oneself, judging other people and things from the point of view of one’s own understanding, i.e. subjectivist pointlessness in contemplation and evaluation.

Tolstoy is an autist: in worldview, culture, philosophy, contemplation, assessments. This autism is the essence of his doctrine. To make this clearer, let me give you an example from the history of philosophy.

About 500 years before the birth of Christ, (in Ancient Greece) there lived a sage, a certain Heraclitus of Ephesus, who wrote a book in which his worldview was reflected. And this worldview was so extraordinary that it was far from easy to understand it, because first it was necessary to discard the usual, everyday ideas and only then try to master a new type of experience, contemplation and thinking.

For the average mass, as a rule, this is not easy, and therefore she does not want and does not do it. She is autistic. So Heraclitus was nicknamed skoteinÒz, i.e. dark, difficult to understand. In reality, his philosophy is easy to understand. If you apply yourself a little and rebuild yourself, if you don’t make a dogma and a canon out of your everyday life, then you will immediately understand that Heraclitus is talking about a hymn to God, and God is like a world fire, like a faithful Reason, which flares up in moderation and fades out in moderation .

The autistic masses did not understand this and imagined the philosopher of the “eternal flame” to be dull and “dark.”

Socrates, who lived about 50 years later and did not know Heraclitus personally, was not autistic: he read his book; thought; I read it again. However, he failed to completely switch to the thought of Heraclitus, and he said: “Everything that I understood in this book is excellent. I think that what I did not understand is also excellent. But what a skilled diver one must be to fish out all the pearls of his thoughts.”

This is the difference between an autist and a contemplator of things.

We constantly need to take care that our soul-spiritual eye does not sleep, that our contemplation does not become impoverished, does not become confined within its natural framework, that we constantly expand them and go beyond their limits.

Tolstoy forgot this. What he penetrated with his gaze was good, and then his “yes” was deep and true. What he did not delve into and did not want to delve into, he simply rejected, and then his “no” became deeply untrue and destructive.

I'll show you all this after the break.

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For those who want to get acquainted with Tolstoy’s worldview without much difficulty, I recommend reading his tale of “Ivan the Fool, the Three Little Devils and Satan, and Ivan’s Sister, the Maiden Melania,” which can be found in his collected works. The main thing is to approach the tendency of the fairy tale as a doctrinaire thesis completely seriously, for this is a superbly presented author’s fairy tale-sermon.

Second hour

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So, Leo Tolstoy’s worldview, as we just found out, consisted of two hypostases: the attitude of love and rational-logical thoughts.

In his philosophical aspirations, Tolstoy undoubtedly truthful, sincere and sincere. He wanted good, moral good, he wanted the best, the perfect, in this he showed himself to be a truly Russian, outstanding person. But in research, philosophizing, thinking and argumentation, he remained an amateur, a home philosopher without an academic education, a noble and brilliantly gifted amateur, which led him to autism in his worldview, to the denial of everything that he did not understand, that did not suit him, that he was outraged.

From him, the individual's apologist for simple instincts; from him, an expert on the ordinary human soul; from him, a great powerful nature, from him, the son of a noble-count with the spontaneous, active soul of a peasant, the essence of spiritual culture eluded. What escaped he rejected; and what he rejected, he tried to argue forcefully; for he was an artist by vocation and a preacher by temperament, but never a researcher, never a philosopher. So he came to the philosophy that elevated his artistic originality into the framework of the canon and became the expression of his straightforwardly logical preaching.

Like ancient Samson, he grabbed the columns of the temple of spiritual culture in order to crush them along with the temple and himself.

He considered it his duty, his calling in life.

He wanted love and nothing more. And this “nothing more,” logically thought out and vividly presented, made him a cultural nihilist, placing him among the seven most famous anarchists in the world, including the Englishman Goodwin, the Frenchman Proudhon, the Russian Bakunin, the Russian prince Kropotkin, the Frenchman Alois Reclus, the American Tucker and Russian Count Tolstoy.

Three out of seven are Russian. All three come from well-born and glorious nobility. All three are destroyers out of love, dreamers out of autistic-latent hatred; all three are blinded by feeling, all three are maximalist preachers who have not seen the essence of spiritual culture.

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For Tolstoy it looks something like this. The morality of love is everything. Everything else breaks down about it: religion, science, art, law, state, Fatherland.

a) Yes, religious experience is replaced and supplanted by moral experiences. Morality is placed above religion; and it, as a criterion, approves or condemns any religious content; the effectiveness of her own experience extends to the sphere of religion, which is given certain limits.

The entire depth of religious perception, the object of faith, the intimate relationship to God and religious symbolism, in short, the entire wealth of positive religion is interpreted and presented critically and skeptically. Blindly, narrowly, complacently, the moralizing mind comes to the fore. And all this together is nothing more than the renewed trial of the famous “human common sense”, which drags to the judgment seat the entire property of the dogmas and rituals of the Christian faith, denounces and rejects everything that seems strange and incomprehensible to it. A quick trial and reprisal is carried out on everything, since the ordinary mind considers even its most short-sighted consideration a sign of criticality, integrity and wisdom.

The idea that the spirituality of a culture as a whole is deepened and sanctified by religious sacrament and that such a consideration would deprive the prosaically sober, limited mind of its competence - this thought does not even occur to the moralist, for he is not able to realize that not only moral experience, but any spiritual state puts a person before the Face of the Lord, allowing him to experience the living, authentic experience of communion with originally-hidden and the Revelation contained in it. The rational moralist does not even assume that his flat, self-satisfied fuss leads only to superficiality in the literal sense of the word, and therefore he deplores the depth inaccessible to him, and therefore mocks it.

Thus his worldview degenerates into a peculiar religious nihilism.

b) From this point of view, Leo Tolstoy's morality carries out its judicial line in the field of science. The spiritual intrinsic value of truth and theoretical obviousness remains hidden to the moralist; he considers himself to be the chosen and competent judge of everything that a scientist does and achieves in his field. He judges his works and the subject by the standards of moral “benefit” or moral “harm”; he condemns and rejects science as a whole as empty, unnecessary and even destructive to morality.

Science for Tolstoy is literally “useless stupidity” and “idle curiosity,” and scientific researchers for him are only “pathetic deceivers.”

All scientific culture, unless it places itself at the service of sentimental morality and thereby supplies the moralist with the material necessary for him, is rejected as unworthy of man, a harmful act, as an expression of idle curiosity, professional vanity and deliberate deception.

Intellectual work for Tolstoy is not work at all, but only appearance and deception, the chatter of a lazy and cunning person (a kind of devil).

The idea of ​​truth for this morality is an empty sound, and therefore it is also completely rejected. After all, the moralist does not understand that spiritual culture finds its meaning and its confidence precisely at the moment of truth: for any spiritual state of a person hides a piece of truth and reveals a piece of knowledge.

In relation to Tolstoy, this means that the personally determined limits of the spiritual act are generalized by him and raised to the level of the main law.

Scientific knowledge is measured by the yardstick moral utilitarianism, and the worldview as a whole takes on the imprint scientific nihilism.

c) The same moral utilitarianism operates in the field of art: the special intrinsic value of artistic contemplation and creativity is condemned, rejected, and the role of art is reduced to the role of a mediator - placed at the service of morality and moral goals.

Art and its inherent originality are tolerable and permissible only when its subject contains a useful teaching that is understandable to everyone, from a moral point of view. Otherwise, it is presented as a product of idleness, a product of rampant immoral passions (“Kreutzer Sonata” by Beethoven).

Any work of art that is unable to say anything to the moralizing utilitarian is subject to mockery and ridicule. And vice versa: any moralizing and useful work is tolerable and commendable, even if aesthetically imperfect. The moralizing mind consistently presents its conclusions and even flirts in some way with its revelations and paradoxes. The aesthetic standards of things are distorted and eliminated; permeating everything, ennobling, deepening and spiritualizing everything the power of artistic contemplation weakens, loses confidence, stumbles, gives way to moralizing rigorism.

The moralist seeks to impose on art a nature and task alien to it and thereby deprives it of its originality, its dignity, its calling. He understands this, realizes it and expresses it in the form of a certain principle, in the form of a doctrine, thus becoming aesthetic nihilist.

d) Law, state, politics and the Fatherland are subject to an even more severe sentence.

The spiritual need and spiritual function of legal consciousness remain terra inco gnita for Tolstoy. He does not know at all what legal consciousness means for a person. The entire sphere of rich, formative spiritual experience tells him nothing at all; here he notices only the most superficial contours of events and affairs; and these formalities appear to him as brutal violence, behind which vindictive and selfish intentions are hidden. His opinion is this: law and the state do not educate people, but, on the contrary, awaken and encourage in them their worst qualities and inclinations.

“Thieves, robbers and murderers” and their “brothers in misfortune” make only rare attempts at violence, and these rare attempts are suppressed by statesmen with deliberately organized, hypocritically justified violence.

For Tolstoy, violence is tantamount to evil, “dirt,” “sin,” “Satan.”

What does state power mean to him? This is violence, a noose, chains, a whip, a knife and an ax. This is nothing more than a purposeful instillation of fear, bribery, hypnosis, army dullness, degradation of an unfortunate person. The criminal and robber commit their crimes rarely and know well that it is a sin. The government does this all the time and considers it justified.

And what? The sympathy of the sentimental moralist is entirely on the side of criminals and murderers, and the activities of state-minded officials are declared worthless and harmful. At the same time, we are talking not only about Russia and its pre-revolutionary situation. We are talking about all countries and states, all without exception - democracies and autocracies, in Europe and America, 1000 and 2000 years ago and now.

Politicians and officials, according to Tolstoy, are most often “corrupt and vicious people; senator, minister, emperor - worse and more disgusting than an executioner and a spy. From here it becomes clear why he seethes so much in his anger as soon as he touches any state function.

The state and law are condemned and rejected by him, which equally applies to all legal institutions, legal relations and legal organizations. Real estate, inheritance law, money (which in itself is evil), military service, court, court decisions - everything is drowning in a stream of indignation, mockery and curses. According to the moralist, all this deserves only reproach, blasphemy and stubborn passive resistance.

And finally, all these principles of destruction are crowned by the denial of the state and love for the Fatherland.

The Fatherland, the state form of its existence, the need to protect it - everything is decisively rejected as unnecessary rubbish.

Morally, all people are brothers, regardless of race, nationality, nationality; every person is worthy of compassion, and no one deserves violence. If an armed bandit takes something from you, you must give it to him; you should sympathize with him, because he doesn’t have enough of something; you must invite him to your place, and he must move in with you and live with you in love and harmony: a person, you see, has nothing on earth that is worth defending at the cost of life and death...

The sentimental moralist does not see or understand that law is a necessary and sacred attribute of the human spirit; that any spiritual state of a person is a modification of law and legitimacy; and that the spiritual culture of humanity cannot be protected and supported except by the method of strictly obligatory social organization - by law, court and sword.

Here the personal spiritual experience of the moralist is silent, and his compassionate soul plunges into anger and indignation; Just look, prophetic thunder will strike.

Tolstoy's teaching, as it turns out, is a variety legal, state and patriotic nihilism.

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It is not difficult to understand that such an attitude leads to an unprecedented undermining of the entire treasury of spiritual culture and throws all its values ​​into the trash heap; its creative and spiritual scope, the enormous spiritually sublimated efforts of the human soul are condemned and banned. A person sees himself wingless, ridiculed, fallen in matters of faith; sees himself as powerless and devoid of the meaning of knowledge; artistically limited, ugly, depressed, powerless, defenseless, deprived of the Fatherland.

In the end, the hurricane sweeps by, and the poor human creature is left with nothing but a single dimension - the “moral” one. And the highest calling of this creature becomes forcing itself to weak-willed, sentimental compassion. The purpose of a person becomes moral self-improvement, i.e. filling the soul with sentimental compassion.

Thus, the worldview of man as a whole is thrown back - to the primitive level of cultureless, paradisiacal, sentimental, natural-rural simplicity.

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Upon closer acquaintance with this point of view, it immediately becomes clear that man is not considered as an individual mind with his living relationship to a living and personal God, with the initially unshakable right, the shrines of the Fatherland, the free contemplation of a supersensible mysterious being in the world and artistic beauty. .. Alas, all this and much more has disappeared. Here, a person, on the one hand, - suffering subject and, accordingly, an object of complicity and compassion; on the other side - compassionate subject who finds his happiness in his compassion and your earthly calling- have compassion. All human life boils down to the fact that people themselves suffer and hurt each other and that people have compassion for each other or not. It’s good if people don’t torture each other and have compassion. It’s bad if people torture each other and don’t have compassion.

The highest task of a person is not to torment and to have compassion; the highest perfection accessible to man is all-encompassing compassion; a person is just if he protects others from suffering, and also if he takes upon himself the suffering of others, and possibly death, instead of others.

Apart from this, sentimental moralism sees nothing, points to nothing, teaches nothing. Here the end of his worldly wisdom, here the limits of his life’s worldview are clearly revealed.

His sentimentality is an increased, but spiritually pointless and weak-willed sensitivity - it would like to easily, quickly and sharply react to the slightest dissatisfaction of a person; and at the same time, he fears in every possible way the suffering of others, is horrified by it and longs for its end.

But only.

Suffering is evil- this is the main, invisible premise of his wisdom; everything else follows deductively from here. If suffering is likened to evil, that is also bad, then one must be prohibited from causing suffering to another, no matter whether he does this for educational purposes or for the purpose of self-defense.

After all, the highest good is not to suffer, but the highest virtue is compassion. From here follows the final conclusion of this practical wisdom: “Do not resist evil by force,” for force is the main source of suffering: whoever uses force fights with violence, starting new suffering, which is tantamount to the accumulation of evil, its multiplication, and not victory over it. Moreover, this would be a matter contrary to reason and hopeless.

Whoever wants to reduce the scale of evil should in no way increase it; and whoever wants to avoid the ways of the devil should not take the path of fighting evil. For evil consists, firstly, in suffering, and, secondly, in causing suffering.

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And here the background of this worldview is revealed, namely: the joy of life without suffering and, therefore, happiness - as the highest good.

In this doctrine of his, Leo Tolstoy is fundamentally wrong. For in reality the situation is this way: by his nature, motives and goals, man is structured in such a way that it is easiest for him to satisfy his needs and pleasures; What’s more difficult is to seed within yourself the seed of spiritual perfection, to cultivate it in every possible way, and to move in a creative direction.

A person is constantly drawn down to pleasures, especially sensual ones. It is extremely rare that he is drawn upward, towards perfection, towards spiritual contemplation and creativity. The path leading upward is accessible to man, but - only in suffering And through suffering. And the burden of suffering in this case consists precisely in the fact that the path downward to simple primitive pleasures is blocked and made inaccessible to him.

This blocking and inaccessibility of downward paths in itself does not mean spiritual heights, but forms the first, necessary prerequisite for climbing.

Not every suffering, not always and not every person, elevates and makes spiritual - it also requires the correct direction of the suffering soul and a certain spiritual-mental ability.

But every true spiritual achievement, every successful, genuine creation goes through a stage of suffering, grows from what happened long ago or from recent, from short or long, from forgotten or unforgettable, but - real suffering...

Only that part of the soul rises to God, only that spiritual energy, which sees neither pleasure nor satisfaction in the primitivism of earthly experiences, in burning through life; that part of the soul that did not waste its strength on satisfying everyday needs, which did not find joy in them.

Suffering is far from evil; suffering is, so to speak, the price for spirituality, for that sacred line beyond which the transformation of the animal essence of man into the essence of value begins; this is the end of the careless thirst for pleasure, which carries a person along with it and plunges him down; suffering is the source of the desire for spirituality, it is the beginning of purification and evidence, it is a necessary, precious core of character, wisdom, and creative work. Therefore, the wisdom of life does not lie in fleeing from suffering as an imaginary evil, but in voluntarily taking upon oneself the burden of future suffering as a kind of gift and pledge, in using this source to cleanse one’s soul.

A person should not curse suffering, but accept this gift, and not only intended for him, but also for others. Of course, this does not mean at all that a person is allowed to deliberately torture himself and his neighbors; it only means that a person must overcome his fear of suffering; should not see evil in him; what he has no right at any cost put a limit and avoid your own and others’ suffering.

Moreover, he must find the courage to appreciate all the educational power of suffering and use it meaningfully.

The punished child suffers - and this is to his benefit, the unloved and rejected admirer suffers - and not a single woman, out of fear of his suffering, should tell him a false and hypocritical “yes”; the arrested criminal suffers - and that’s good; The enemy occupier suffers from the defending defenders, so does he really have a right to count on anything else?

Suffering mobilizes and educates a person. And it is not suffering that must be rejected, but cruelty and senseless torment.

As soon as a spiritual need arises for something, a person has to suffer, since the spirit in a person takes precedence over his animal nature; then suffering is the price of his spiritual formation.

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And this is exactly what tragic law of human essence scared the kind heart of Leo Tolstoy; he turned away from it, shocked and helpless. This price he was not ready and did not want to pay for spirituality; he passed by the main tragedy of human life on earth without noticing it. He recognized suffering as the principle of evil and its essence; I was looking for the path to human happiness and found it - in the joy of compassion.

And since the path of suffering is the inevitable path of spirituality, he condemned and rejected not only this path itself, but also the direction, purpose and meaning of ascent along it through the crucible of suffering.

The entire spiritual treasury of humanity, all spiritual activity and creation were condemned and rejected by him in the name of so that people would no longer torment themselves and others.

Now you won’t have to “grieve” each other; spirituality is abandoned; religion, science, art and the state were finished, and now, as it seemed to him, he could surrender universal enjoyment of universal compassion.

Happiness is a constant reminder, standing very close, close, at the door: enjoy your own compassion and do not hinder others.

So spiritual nihilism becomes an inevitable consequence sentimental hedonism, and the whole so-called theory " non-resistance to evil by violence” - the full expression of both.

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We can say this about this: Leo Tolstoy affirms the element of love in the idea of ​​good - and here he is right, but denies the element of spirit - and here he is wrong. As a result, he sees in evil an element of hatred and hostility and passes over the element in silence the spiritual content of this hatred and this enmity. And this is the vulnerability of his doctrine. He considers enmity to be the main sin; but in the world there is also justified, just enmity - towards those who encroach on the freedom of others, on the weak and defenseless, on spiritual culture, on the Fatherland. His ideal is called compassion; but there is compassion that is contrary to the spirit, the kind of compassion when you destroy one and betray another.

In light of this, Tolstoy could not help but come to his famous paradoxes, to his doctrine, according to which one should not resist evil by force; according to which heroism as forceful resistance for the purpose of self-defense is condemned as a sin and an atrocity; according to which desertion is considered the duty of everyone.

He preached love while renouncing the spirit; hence his sentimental nihilism.

His doctrine is a kind of conglomerate of moralizing Christianity, devoid of its dogmas, and the denial of culture as a whole; it is a synthesis in which sentimental, pacifist morality turns into spiritual primitivism.

His Christianity resembles, on the one hand, certain early church movements that rejected the state and culture and preached withdrawal from the world; on the other hand, certain extreme rational excesses of the times of the Reformation and Rousseau.

Quite recently, while studying the history of Switzerland, I remembered Tolstoy, and in this connection: in December 1525, in the canton of Zurich, Grebel, Mentz and Blaurock acted as Anabaptists; in Zollikon, their adherents broke the font, and a large crowd of these re-baptists, dressed in canvas bags and belted with willow twigs, walked through the streets, in every possible way blaspheming Zwingli and prophesying death for Zurich.

They demanded the abolition of taxes, military affairs and courts, and the practical implementation of Christian love for one's neighbor in the form of communal property. But the city council of Zurich came in here, banned any religious meetings outside the church and brutally dealt with the re-baptized. Mantz and his comrades were drowned in Lymma, and Blaurok, as an accomplice, was flogged and driven out of the city. This is how Zwingli dealt with the anarchocommunism of his time.

Leo Tolstoy, of course, would have condemned his actions only for the reason that the Swiss sentimental maximalists had in mind something similar to what he had in mind; and also because he considered any use of force a sin.

Much has changed in the world since then, but the problem of how to unite love and spiritual culture, still remains unresolved, continues to be misinterpreted and mishandled. It must be necessary to find and bring to life a new Christianity, where spiritual culture arises from love and where love blooms with the flower of spiritual culture.

I have no doubt that such a kingdom is coming, that we will create a new culture of love. This is the ultimate, enduring meaning of Leo Tolstoy’s worldview: it shows us the path and introduces into our consciousness the goal - to achieve a creative fusion of spirit and love in a single Christian culture.

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Just as a wounded lion in suffering constantly licks its wound, so a patriot with all his feelings, will and thoughts is constantly chained to the deep wounds and suffering of his Fatherland.

Just like your ancestors 120 years ago, we now never stop thinking about ways and means of resurrecting our unfortunate Fatherland. Where is the exit? What's the best way to help? What is our weakness? What are we missing?

The time has come for the Russian nation to make a clear, stable, courageously formulated diagnosis for itself in order to know itself, its spirit, its illness, and, based on the result of this knowledge, outline the path leading to healing and take it.

When a blind man leads a blind man, both fall into a pit. This means that now our duty, first of all, is to free ourselves from blindness and accurately determine the causes and background of our illness.

Many years have passed since I first realized that my Fatherland was spiritually sick, and for the first time I consciously approached understanding the causes and essence of this illness.

I don’t know how successful I will be in sketching my own diagnosis, which my friends demand from me, but the fact that individual fragments of it, gradually ripening in me, are asking to come out is a fact.

The causes of the disease are deeply hidden - in nature and climate, in ethnic material and historical events, in the soul and character; hidden in a complex, fatal, but not insurmountable way; their burden is great, but we are not deprived of the prospect of throwing it off: having gone through all the suffering of self-knowledge, we will begin great and joyful work as a stimulus for recovery.

If there are peoples worthy of this educational, culturally endowing spiritually creative work, then among them are my people in all their givenness: richly gifted with spiritual talent, with an openness of heart, sincere religiosity and natural, inexhaustible power.

There is no doubt: the time will come when illness, dishonor, and poverty will be cast aside, when the healthy depths of the spirit will open up and lead us forward. And we, the exiles, the thinkers of Russia, calmly and confidently look into the eyes of its future and draw from this confidence the courage for a firm, sober and essential awareness of what we previously lacked and what we lack now.

Translation from German by O.V. Koltipina.

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Section one. FORMATION OF TOLSTOY'S WORLDVIEW

Chapter 1. The influence of Rousseau's ideas on Tolstoy.

§ 1. On the philosophical understanding of nature

§ 2. Attitude to science, theater and civilization

§ 3. Religion and God in the views of Rousseau and Tolstoy

§ 4. Paradox as a way of perceiving the world.

Chapter 2. Formation of the nationality of Tolstoy's worldview.

§ 1. Tolstoy’s early diaries as a source of his formation as a philosopher

§ 2. The origins of nationality in Tolstoy’s works

§ 3. National roots of Tolstoy’s identity

Chapter 3. Philosophy of history.

§ 1. Young Tolstoy on history

§ 2. Necessary and accidental in history

§ 3. Free will and necessity

§ 4. Labor as the basis of the historical process

Section two. THE IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORK OF TOLSTOY

Chapter 1. Kant and Tolstoy.

§ 1. The idea of ​​freedom in Kakt and Tolstoy

§ 2. The relationship between morality and religion

§ 3. Philosophical meaning of good and evil.

Chapter 2. Schopenhauer and Tolstoy.

§ 1. Free will and necessity in nature and history.

§ 2. Pantheistic motives in creativity

Tolstoy and Schopenhauer

§ 3. Compassion and love as the basis of morality

Chapter 3. The influence of Eastern philosophy on Tolstoy's worldview.

§ 1. Basic principles of Confucianism and Tolstoy

§ 2. The doctrine of universal love Mo Di and its reflection in the teachings of Tolstoy

§ 3. Laozi and Tolstoy.

§ 4. Buddhism and Tolstoy’s teachings.

Chapter 4. Russian philosopher and Tolstoy.

§ 1. Tolstoy’s worldview in the assessment of Russian philosophers.

§ 2. B.C. Soloviev, N.F. Fedorov and Tolstoy.

Section three. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS OF TOLSTOY

Chapter 1. Leah Tolstoy about God.

§ 1. Tolstoy’s criticism of “Dogmatic Theology” a) the idea of ​​creation. b) the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. c) a new understanding of Christ

§ 2. Tolstoy’s understanding of God

Chapter 2. Religion and morality.

§ 1. 0 life and its meaning.

§ 2. 0 one God and different faiths.

§ 3. Objectivity of morality

§ 4. Love as a religious and moral principle

Chapter 3. The doctrine of non-violence.

§ 1. Religious and philosophical premises of the doctrine

§ 2. Ontological origins of non-violence

§ 3. Methodological foundations of non-violence

§ 4. The moral meaning of the idea of ​​​​non-violence

§ 5. Political aspect of the problem.

§ 6. The religious nature of Tolstoy’s teachings on non-violence.

Introduction of the dissertation (part of the abstract) on the topic “The origins and evolution of L. Tolstoy’s worldview”

The relevance of research. The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the need for a comprehensive historical and philosophical study of the philosophical and religious roots of Tolstoy’s work, the essence of his worldview, which had a great influence on Russian and world philosophical thought in the 19th-20th centuries.

The dissertation is devoted to the study of the religious and philosophical origins of the teachings of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy and the evolution of his worldview. The subject of research is taken in its multidimensional complexity, that is, as a historical, philosophical and religious phenomenon. This breadth of approach ensures the convincingness of the dissertation author’s conclusions about the ideological foundations of Tolstoy’s entire work - artistic, philosophical, and journalistic. Studying these foundations from a historical point of view makes it possible to identify the origins of many of the writer’s ideas that arose in him in adulthood. These include ideas about non-violence as a special vision of the world and a way to change it, about God as the center of unity of people in a humanistic community, about life as a special state of matter - a state of balanced harmony, about morality as an objective sphere of the rational existence of people, etc. Without studying the origins of the Russian thinker’s worldview, which are seen by the dissertation author both in the psychological characteristics of his personality and in the external influence of the natural and social environment on him, it is impossible to understand the mechanism of formation of his main conceptual ideas.

The dissertation highlights four periods in the evolution of Tolstoy's worldview: 1) the early stage of creativity - the beginning of the formation of Tolstoy's worldview, in which his humanistic beliefs were just emerging and formalized in artistic form (40s - 60s of the 19th century); 2) the stage of completion of the formation of Tolstoy’s worldview (60s-70s of the 19th century), during which his views on the historical process were formed, ideas about the hidden springs of social life were formed; 3) the time of the moral and religious revolution in Tolstoy’s consciousness (late 70s - 80s of the 19th century), when he formulated his basic philosophical and religious ideas - about the principles of a non-violent structure of life, about God, religion and morality; 4) the preaching stage in Tolstoy’s work (late 80s of the 19th century - 1910), when Tolstoy’s views on the existence of nature, society and man finally took shape and his preaching activity unfolded in its entirety. At the same time, the dissertation notes a certain relativity of the chronological division of these periods. The author's goal was, first of all, a meaningful analysis of the ideological and creative evolution of the Russian thinker, and not a formal identification of a strict time frame for the designated periods of his work.

The dissertation describes in detail the basic ideological content of each of these stages. Special areas of research include: the stage of formation of Tolstoy’s worldview, the influence of Western and Eastern philosophy on his work, the content of the moral and religious revolution in the writer’s mind.

Until recently, questions about the origins and driving forces of the evolution of Leo Tolstoy’s worldview were covered in scientific literature in a tendentious manner; Tolstoy’s moral and religious ideas were considered a product only of Russian reality. The approach to Tolstoy's teachings on non-violence was one-sided and subjectivist. In the philosophical literature of the Soviet period, Tolstoy's worldview was interpreted from a social-class perspective, and the universal aspects of his work were biased and overly sharply criticized.

The most significant drawback in the study of Tolstoy's worldview is in considering it not as a systemic formation, but as a manifestation of the irrational aspirations of consciousness to build from scattered impressions a moral utopia, devoid of life roots.

A hundred years after Tolstoy’s sermon on non-violence, humanity was faced with the need to resolve global contradictions that had become extremely acute and dangerous and even threatened to end its history. Nonviolent resolution of diplomatic disputes, territorial conflicts, social problems, and religious differences has become the agenda of modern humanity. Without such permission, the integration of humanity into a single and integral world community will be impossible. Only after this will the true history of humanity be possible, where its main mover will not be instincts, human drives and needs based on them, but spirit and morality based on reason and love and beauty as the highest manifestations of life.

The need of humanity to realize this formation into a rational and united community dictates the need to develop the spiritual foundations of such aspiration towards the One. Tolstoy's teaching can serve as one of the theoretical sources helping the spiritual unity of humanity. All this makes relevant a meaningful analysis of the philosophical foundations of Tolstoy’s worldview and the development of the problems posed in it: the non-violent relationship of man to nature, society, to another person, the desire for the One through the material and ideal environment, the obligation and non-obligation of the moral principle in people’s lives, etc.

The degree of development of the topic. In numerous works on Tolstoy, his worldview was not explored deeply enough. Therefore, the main sources in the dissertation author’s work were the works of Tolstoy himself, which were poorly analyzed in philosophical literature from the point of view of their philosophical content and religious issues. The dissertation also used literary and philosophical sources in Russian and foreign languages, relating both to the period of Tolstoy’s work and to the modern period.

The works of modern authors were used to compare assessments of Tolstoy’s work at the beginning of the 20th century and at the end of it to understand the new meaning of the writer’s ideas in our lives. It is worth mentioning the works of such authors as N.N. Apostolov, V.F. Asmus, I.E. Vertsman, A.O. Gusev, N.S. Kozlov, D.Yu. Kvitko, Ya.S. Lurie , K.N.Lomunov, N.B. Mardov, L.3.Nemirovskaya, M.F.Ovsyannikov, A.S.Poltavtsev, M.N.Rozanov, B.F. Sushkov, A.I. Shifman, B.M. Eikhenbaum and others. The works of foreign authors also deserve attention - I. Berlin, M. Dorn, H.E. Davis, N. Weisbein, D. W. Spence, K. Nag , K. Hamburger, E. B. Greenwood, M. Gruseman, X. O. Hellerer, R. Gustaffson, X. L. Fausset, M. Brown, L. Stein, D. Milivojevich, A. Ya. Syrkin and etc.

Numerous literature about Tolstoy, especially richly presented at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, was created mainly by literary scholars and historians. Certain philosophical works of this period (I.A. Ilyin, L. Shestov, D.S. Merezhkovsky, S.N. Bulgakov, N.A. Berdyaev, I.A. Ilyin, G.V. Plekhanov, etc.) were overly ideologized, openly defended the state and church, or even the revolution in society, which Tolstoy criticized. During the Soviet period, issues of studying and interpreting the ideological foundations of Tolstoy’s work were deliberately avoided, which was due to censorship and the anarchic features of his teaching. In some works (D.Yu. Kvitko, A.S. Poltavtsev, etc.) attempts were made to provide a comprehensive analysis of Tolstoy’s worldview. However, these attempts suffered from far-fetched ideological clichés about Tolstoy and, most importantly, superficial assessments of the writer’s philosophical ideas. The essence of Tolstoy's teaching on non-violence and the sources of its formation were not revealed - hence the wrong opinion was formed about this teaching as non-vital, abstract, and corresponding criticism was given to it. I.D. Ilyin’s main thesis about Tolstoy’s “morality of flight” found supporters among class-oriented interpreters of his work, which led to a one-sided assessment of it and its incorrect presentation to the reading public.

Researchers of Tolstoy's work approach him from a variety of positions. This leads to the reflection in their analysis of different aspects of Tolstoy’s worldview and often to very contradictory and even mutually exclusive assessments of his ideas. In order to avoid one-sidedness and subjectivity in the analysis of Tolstoy's ideas, the dissertation student sought to realize his research goal - to identify the philosophical and religious origins and show the substantive significance of the main stages in the evolution of Tolstoy's worldview, with the greatest completeness.

In the context of the formulated topic, some works should be mentioned in more detail. The problem of the influence of Western philosophical thought as a whole on Tolstoy’s worldview is touched upon to some extent only in the work of D. Yu. Kvitko “The Philosophy of Tolstoy” (M., 1928; 1930). The author notes the influence on Tolstoy of the ideas of Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Thomas Hardy; shows that both Tolstoy’s philosophy of history and religion were predetermined both by his environment in childhood and youth, and by the influence of social traditions in Russian life on him

The eternal contradiction between masters and slaves. “Analyzing the life of his society,” writes D. Kvitko, “we find that his ideas are an echo of the master-class, which: e:l p:lost and the peasant-class, who is still ^ate." o.5". The author extols Rousseau over Tolstoy, trying to belittle the importance of the new religion created by the Russian writer: "While Rousseau was interested in earthly life, the thought of death overshadowed the joy of life for Tolstoy." (75, p. 154). A. Davilkovsky notes something similar: “In reality, he (Tolstoy - E.R.) often found himself with his love outside of time and space, i.e. outside of life, outside of the living sensation of its most painful sides; not like Rousseau, sick with the diseases of the people." (50, N7, pp. 132-133;.

A similar, generally controversial, point of view is opposed by M. N. Rozanov’s conviction about the decisive influence of Rousseau on the personality of the young Tolstoy, which was predetermined both by the romantic literary traditions of the 18th century and by the “spontaneous, subconscious closeness” of both to “the earth, to nature, some kind of instinctive craving for the primary sources of life." (150, pp. 9-10). To Rozanov’s statement we can add the opinions of I.E. Vertsman about Rousseau as a herald of Tolstoy’s ideas about the inhumane nature of modern civilization (see: I.E. Vertsman. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, M., 1976. p. 275), G. Opreai A. Oprea about Leo Tolstoy, who “practically replaces the “good savage” with a good Russian peasant, which explains the fact that in solving many problems he seems to be more Russian than Rousseau.” (273, p. 307). In a word, the question of Rousseau’s influence on Tolstoy and the ideological similarity of Rousseauism and Tolstoyism is covered in detail and causes almost no discrepancies in his assessment.

The situation is different with the problem of reflecting the ideas of Kant and Schopenhauer in Tolstoy’s works. An article was written about the influence of Kant’s ideas on Tolstoy’s worldview: G.R.Yan. Tolstoy and Kant. //New perspectives of Russian prose of the 19th century. Columbus, Ohio, 1982, pp.60-70. The author of the article believes that Tolstoy used in his artistic works such ideas of Kantian philosophy as “the conditioning of the nature of time by the vast cosmos” in “War and Peace” (Indicative work, p. 66), “the effect of the existence of man as a being moved not by the light of truth , but a natural being in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (ibid., p. 67). Ian's conclusion that the range of Kantian ideas - epistemological, metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic - considered through the prism of comprehending truth, can become "the key to completeness Tolstoy’s creativity, understood as a whole” (ibid., p. 68) is, unfortunately, justified only by references to Tolstoy’s artistic works, but is not supported by an analysis of his philosophical and religious works.

Among the sources covering the influence of Schopenhauer's ideas on Tolstoy, one can point to the work of X. O. Hellerer "The World of Language and the Growth of Life. The Influence of Schopenhauer and Tolstoy on the Logical-Philosophical Treatise of Ludwig Wittgenstein" (Munich, 1985). The work shows the ideological connection between Wittgenstein's abstract rationalistic approach to the world and Schopenhauer's concept of a priori world will and Tolstoy's synthetic doctrine of love. The similarity between the thinking of Schopenhauer and Tolstoy lies, according to the author, in their identical approach to the world and human culture - from the aspect of aesthetic content. Wittgenstein's thinking developed in approximately the same way.

The influence of the ideas of Eastern philosophy and religion on Tolstoy’s worldview is discussed in detail in the works of D. Milivojevich and A. Syrkin. D. Milivojevich in the article “Tolstoy’s Views on Buddhism” (Tolstoy studies Journal. Vol.III. New-York, p.62-75.) identifies four criteria for Tolstoy’s ideal religion, which he developed in the process of his spiritual evolution. The first criterion is the universality of general religious ethics, the second is the consonance of religion with the dictates of reason, the third is the vital-practical aspect of religion, the last, and most important, is the karmic law that connects the individual and the proper in the individual. (Op. cit., p. 63). The author believes that many Buddhist ideas were used by Tolstoy in his work: the idea of ​​the unity of all living things, the connection between the individual and the common in people’s lives, empathy for the unity of the individual and nature in early Buddhism and the rationalistic attitude towards the world in the late Tolstoy, which makes him similar to the mystical motives of the late Tolstoy. Buddhism. (Ibid., pp. 72-73).

A. Syrkin in his work “Descent to Ascend” (Jerusalem, 1993) uses the idea of ​​moral purification through the secularization of the individual, through the atonement of his sins by repentance and enlightenment, so characteristic of the Eastern mentality. The author emphasizes that the idea of ​​“departure”, characteristic of Buddhism and clearly visible in Tolstoy’s work, manifests itself in him as a “conscious “descent”, a decrease in one’s social and property status (begging, vagrancy), accompanied by self-abasement, the desire to “limit” oneself ". (Op. cit., p. 113).

The works of D. Bodd “Tolstoy and China” (London, 1950) and A. I. Shifman “Leo Tolstoy and the East” (Moscow, 1971) contain a lot of bibliographical and reference material: Tolstoy’s interest in China is explained by his religious crisis at the end of the 60s -x - 70s XIX century, and Tolstoy's frequent references to Indian, Buddhist sources - his desire to find the common foundations of a new, unified world religion. About this desire of Tolstoy, which originated in the days of his youth, see also M.F. Ovsyannikov (L.N. Tolstoy. // History of the philosophy of the peoples of the USSR. T.Z. M., 1968, p. 366). Tolstoy's philosophy of history is discussed in detail in the work of Ya.S. Lurie "After Leo Tolstoy" (St. Petersburg, 1993). According to the author, Tolstoy’s historical determinism brings his philosophy of history closer to Hegel’s dialectics, and the idea of ​​“homogeneous drives of people” leading to “satisfaction of their needs” - with historical materialism. However, the author accurately notes a characteristic feature of Tolstoy’s philosophy of history - its alienness to the superstition of the world order in people’s lives. Therefore, being convinced that “... one person or group of people is not capable of changing the world” (op. cit., p. 26), Tolstoy could not possibly agree with the Marxist thesis about the destruction of the world of violence.

I. Berlin in his work “The Hedgehog and the Fox” (New York, 1957) speaks of the duality of Tolstoy’s approach to history: on the one hand, the Russian writer was a monist, on the other, a pluralist. His monism was manifested in a constant desire to perceive the world and history through the prism of his “I”, and pluralism - in his beliefs and interpretations of his beliefs (op. cit., p. 12). Based on this, we can assume, in the opinion of this author, that the idea of ​​differentials of history, integrating into the general historical trend, is a kind of theoretical expression of this conviction of Tolstoy’s worldview.

The question of the inconsistency of Tolstoy's worldview, of the conflicts in his consciousness, is often touched upon in Tolstoy studies. You can read about this in the works of H.P. Fausset ("Tolstoy. Inner Drama". New York, 1968, pp. 16-17, 25), M. Brown ("Tolstoy. Literary Biography". Gottingen, 1978, p. .299, 304-305, 313-315, 345-351), R. Gustaffson ("Leo Tolstoy. Resident and Stranger. Stages of Fiction and Theology." Princeton, 1986, pp. 18,20,269,455).

The conflict between reason and feeling, the individual and society, nature and civilization, the personal “I” and the social environment in which it is located, or the “Not-I,” runs through Tolstoy’s entire work. It underlies both Tolstoy’s spiritual crisis and his moral and religious teachings.

S. Mittal speaks a lot about the origins of Tolstoy’s moral and religious teachings (“Tolstoy: Social and Political Ideas.” Delhi-Calcutta, 1966). The Russian writer is characterized by the author as a rationalist, which is confirmed by the religion he created, in which morality prevails without the theological and mystical doctrines of Christianity. Tolstoy’s question about the meaning of life comes down to the need to fulfill the law of human unity with everything that exists. Non-resistance is seen as a way of forming human brotherhood through conviction and peaceful thoughts.

In the programmatic article for the topic under study, Ludwig Stein “Tolstoy’s Place in the History of Philosophy” (Archive on the History of Philosophy. T. XXXII. PNU Notebook. Berlin, 1920, pp. 125-141) Tolstoy as a social reformer and religious prophet is called a unique phenomenon of “similar which we can hardly find among the greatest peaks of world literature11 (op. cit., p. 126).Highlighting two main types of thinkers in the history of philosophy - rationalists and artists - the author not only classifies Tolstoy as a poet-thinker, but also calls him their spiritual leader. On a par with Tolstoy are the Stoics, Rousseau, medieval mystics, the intuitionist Bergson, the neo-romantic G. Keyserling. In the end, Tolstoy’s closeness to nature, the metaphysical and figurative nature of his worldview direct his spiritual development to a unique philosophy of life, which originates in the old metaphysics of hylozoism. However, Tolstoy supported his philosophy with his life destiny, which earns respect for him. In general, according to the author, “Tolstoy represents a powerful cultural factor who led to the highest artistic and conceptual religious expression of one of the great tendencies of human thinking - the sensual demon of our nature" (ibid., p. 141).

When conducting a comparative analysis of the ideas of Tolstoy and representatives of world philosophical thought, the dissertation widely used the works of Russian religious philosophers, the works of Kant, Schopenhauer, Rousseau, Laozi, Confucius, Mo Di, Buddhist sources, as well as literature about them.

Purpose and objectives of the study. The purpose of the dissertation research is to meaningfully analyze the main stages in the evolution of Tolstoy’s worldview: the formation of his philosophical views, the formation of his moral and religious doctrine and preaching it to people of all continents.

More specifically, the dissertation student set the following tasks:

1. To identify the sources of formation of Tolstoy’s worldview, especially in the early period of his work, for which to provide an analysis of the writer’s early diaries.

2. Show the role of the ideas of J.-J. Rousseau in the formation of the spiritual foundations of Tolstoy’s personality.

3. Analyze the role of the natural and social environment - the external conditions that shaped the nationality and the desire for natural harmony of life as characteristic features of Tolstoy’s worldview.

4. Explore Tolstoy’s philosophy of history, which served as the methodological basis for both the writing of the novel “War and Peace” and the creation of his moral and religious doctrine.

5. Trace the influence of the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer on Tolstoy’s work and the development of his original worldview.

6. Trace the influence of philosophy and religion of the Ancient East on Tolstoy’s work.

7. Show the indirect influence of Russian religious philosophical thought on Tolstoy’s views in the last years of his life.

8. Provide an analysis and interpretation of Tolstoy’s main religious and philosophical ideas, based on the works created by the writer both during his moral and religious revolution and in the late period of his creativity.

9. Show the relationship between Tolstoy’s ideas about God, religion and morality, which served as a comprehensive theoretical basis for his teaching about love as a special harmonious synthesis of the existence of nature, society and man.

10. Consider and analyze the quintessence of Tolstoy’s worldview - his teaching on non-violence, show the multidimensional nature of this teaching.

11. Reveal the humanistic nature of Tolstoy’s utopian doctrine, its contribution to the treasury of world culture, its relevance for solving a number of problems in the political and spiritual life of both the Russian people and all of humanity.

Scientific novelty of the research and provisions submitted for defense. A significant amount of literature about Tolstoy presented the author with a difficult task: to find his own special approach to the analysis of Tolstoy’s work and try to identify the philosophical foundations and ideas in it. The author of the dissertation made an attempt to show Tolstoy not just as a religious prophet and preacher, but as a deep philosopher, who relied in his work on the entire wealth of world philosophical and religious thought. This allows the author to make a number of new assessments of Tolstoy’s work and determine the novelty of his research in the following provisions :

1. The periodization of Tolstoy’s creative development is determined and the sources of the formation of his worldview are considered.

2. Tolstoy’s creative evolution is shown as an integrative process, which was determined by the following main factors: the genetic inclinations of the individual, the social environment and world philosophical and religious thought.

3. For the first time, the influence of the ideas of Kant, Schopenhauer, Laozi, Confucius, Mo Di, and the basic ideas of Buddhism on Tolstoy’s worldview and all his work is shown in detail. As a result, the writer truly appears before us as a thinker who combined the richness of the Russian soul with a moral-religious, universally synthetic perception of life and human history.

4. Tolstoy’s thoughts about God as the source of spiritual unity of people and the objective nature of morality, which is based on the concept of love, are considered in the dissertation as the philosophical foundations of his teaching on non-violence.

5. The quintessence of Tolstoy's worldview - the doctrine of non-violence as the basic condition for the life of the human community - is analyzed as a complex multidimensional phenomenon. The philosophical and religious prerequisites of this teaching are revealed, its ontological origins, methodological foundations, moral meaning, political aspects and religious content of the idea of ​​​​non-violence are shown.

Main provisions submitted for defense:

1. Tolstoyism is a philosophical teaching about the world, society and man, in which the material and spiritual foundations of existence are united through the love of God into a harmonious system, or the highest Good.

This conclusion is supported by the interpretation of Tolstoy’s worldview as a religious version of the philosophy of life, which has its origins in the unity of man and nature, in the polymorphism of matter and spirit, in the universal nature of the moral teachings of world religions and great philosophers of the past. The philosophy of Leo Tolstoy can be otherwise called the philosophy of the One Life.

2. The doctrine of non-violence is a special case in Leo Tolstoy’s philosophy of Good. Love, as the highest good of life, and the path to this good are possible only in conditions of non-violence. .An integrated approach to the category of nonviolence makes it possible to identify not only its moral character, but also its ontological and methodological foundations, its religious and philosophical prerequisites, as well as its practical applicability in solving political problems.

3. Tolstoy’s morality, that is, the morality of non-violence and love, provides an example of the application of religious consciousness to people’s lives, which is based on a newly understood Christianity as a teaching about love and the moral improvement of man.

4. The evolution of Leo Tolstoy’s worldview went from the stage of formation, where ideas of nationality and a romantic perception of life prevailed, to the stage of a moral and religious revolution in his consciousness, when his transition from a mechanistic view of the world to a synthetic-harmonic one took place. The evolution of Tolstoy’s worldview ended with the stage of preaching his teachings, at which the Russian apostle of non-violence came to the idea of ​​the inevitability of humanity’s transition from life according to the laws of selfish morality to life according to the laws of altruistic morality.

5. Stages of formation and design of Tolstoy’s social. historical and philosophical views were influenced mainly by Western European thought. The ideas of Eastern philosophy helped Tolstoy form his religion of love, which reflected the generic essence of man, at the third stage of his spiritual evolution. At the preaching stage, Tolstoy's worldview was gradually transformed under the influence of both Western and Eastern philosophy and religion (and indirectly under the influence of the ideas of Russian religious philosophers) into a philosophy of active love - through an inevitable revolution in the moral consciousness of society.

6. The moral and religious teaching of Leo Tolstoy, by its nature, is a humanistic utopia, which has roots in the real contradictions of the world itself. Tolstoy's teaching does not protect escape from life, but its highest religious understanding - as life organized according to the laws of reason and love. Tolstoy's credo is the belief in love, not only as the highest value of existence, but also as a factor in the practical change of the world to its harmonious state, where Goodness, Truth and Beauty will reign.

Research methods and techniques. When writing the work, a specific historical approach was used in revealing the topic, due to the historical and philosophical nature of the research. The author took into account that the development of Tolstoy’s worldview went through a number of stages that do not have a strict time frame. This necessitated a combination of the historical method with the logical-analytical one, which makes it possible to deeply explore the essential content of various parts of the writer’s worldview - philosophical, religious, ethical.

Another main method of research is a comparative analysis of the concepts and problems of Tolstoy and world philosophical thought, which made it possible to compare in the historical and philosophical context the similarities and differences in the interpretation of a number of important ideological issues. The comparative and substantive analysis of the most important terms and ideas in Tolstoy’s worldview is also complemented by a synthetic approach, which allows us to comprehend them as a certain holistic system of views, which is understood in the dissertation as Tolstoy’s teachings.

In the dissertation, the author widely uses the system-structural approach both in creating classifications of Tolstoy’s problems and ideas, and in determining the main stages in the periodization of his work. This approach allows us to study Tolstoy’s philosophical worldview as an integrative and holistic phenomenon that received impulses in its systemic evolution from religious sources, and from moral value systems, and from the epistemological need to explain the world through the prism of sensory-rational, imaginative perception of it.

The dissertation author often used the technique of logical extrapolation of Tolstoy’s ideas to concepts and problems related to those being studied (for example, violence, the dichotomy of the world into a thing and an idea, the reasons for the emergence and evolution of religious faith, etc.). This made it possible to move away from the established traditional cliches in the interpretation of Tolstoy’s philosophy and evaluate his work taking into account the needs of today’s life.

Practical value of the work. The dissertation materials make a certain contribution to the philosophical study of Tolstoy’s heritage and can be used in the preparation and delivery of general and special lecture courses for undergraduate and graduate students on the history of philosophy, cultural history, literary history, literary studies, religious studies, and ethics. The main ideas of the dissertation can be used in research work when studying such issues as the characteristics and structure of religious consciousness, the causes and conditions for the formation of morality, the connection of literary creativity with its philosophical origins, ontological, psychological and methodological foundations of non-violence, the influence of religion and morality on the political consciousness and politics, etc.

Approbation of work. The main results of the study were presented by the author at seminars at the State Museum of Leo Tolstoy in 1991, at a scientific seminar at the Yasnaya Polyana State Museum-Reserve (January 1992), at the First International Philosophical Symposium "Dialogue of Civilizations: East - West" in Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (May 1992), at Lomonosov readings at Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (March 1993), at the International Scientific Conference "The Long Path of Russian Peacekeeping" at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (September 1992), at the All-Russian Conferences "Tolstoy and Ecology" (June 1994) and “Tolstoy and non-violence” (June 1995) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the XXII Tolstoy Readings at the Tula State Pedagogical University named after L.N. Tolstoy (September 1995), at the scientific and methodological conference of humanitarian departments of MGIEM "Russia on the threshold of the 21st century (Methodological aspect: the study of modern processes. June 1,997)."

Work structure. The dissertation with a total volume of 369 pages consists of an introduction, three sections, ten chapters, thirty-five paragraphs, a conclusion and a list of references (291 titles) in Russian and foreign languages.

Conclusion of the dissertation on the topic “History of Philosophy”, Rachin, Evgeniy Ivanovich

Tolstoy's teaching on non-violence cannot be understood as exclusively religious and moralizing. It has a complex nature, which is determined by the complex structure of existence itself.

The religious premises of the teaching are rooted in the ideological foundations of the largest religions. Non-action in Taoism, man's path to self-improvement in Buddhism, the merging of man with the spirit of the Universe in Hinduism, God's chosenness of the Jewish people in Judaism as a unique expression of the uniqueness of life, moral effort in Islam, love as a means of unifying people in Christianity express the archetypal nature of non-violence rooted in religious consciousness human initially. The philosophical sources of the doctrine of nonviolence can be called the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Confucius, Mo Di, Plato’s doctrine of ideas, the Neoplatonists’ ideas about the One, Spinoza’s pantheism, etc.

The ontological basis for the principle of non-violence are three laws of nature: the law of balance in the evolution of natural systems, the law of systematicity in the structure of matter, the law of ectropion as a manifestation of one of the branches of development. In connection with this, Tolstoy’s ideological predecessor can be called, to some extent, Spencer, and indirect defenders of his teachings are A.A. Bogdanov and L. von Bertalanffy. The principle of the tendency of matter towards Novum. or the principle of nature searching for its new state through the flow of information from one system to another, also substantiates Tolstoy’s teaching.

Methodologically, non-violence, according to Tolstoy, can be established in society through people’s observance of certain rules: the basic commandments of Christ, the separation of the law of God and the law of man, the liberation of people from false faith, a person’s determination of his position in the world as tragic, the absorption of evil by good, the awareness of the impossibility live in conditions of violence.

The moral meaning of the idea of ​​non-violence lies in the need for people to move from the principles of “animal” morality, based on the selfishness of the individual, to the principles of reasonable morality, based on serving the race with the help of love.

The political aspect of the problem is expressed in Tolstoy’s idea of ​​non-participation in state violence against the individual, in the renunciation of violence not only to change morality, but also to change the entire structure of social relations.

In a religious sense, the teaching of non-violence is the elimination from the lives of people of false faiths, violent forms of ideology legitimized by customs and the state, persecution for faith, and the rejection of blind fetishism in the understanding of social and church hierarchy.

In general, Tolstoy's teaching on non-violence can be characterized as a humanistic religious utopia that promotes the spiritual unity of humanity.

CONCLUSION

Tolstoy's worldview, the core of which is the doctrine of non-violence as a principle of existence, developed gradually over decades. We can distinguish four main stages in the development of Tolstoy’s worldview.

1) The early stage of creativity, at which the formation of the writer’s worldview began (40s - 60s of the 19th century). This is the time of Tolstoy's early diaries, the creation of his first stories, the story "Cossacks". This stage is characterized by Tolstoy’s fascination with Rousseau’s philosophy, in which man was understood primarily as a natural being, consideration of social life as a complex and contradictory process of the clash of interests and wills of people, and an orientation toward the analysis of the inner world of the individual. The main feature of the works of this period is nationality and romantic pathos in the perception of life.

Three sources shaped Tolstoy’s soul and his worldview: innate inclinations, which included a natural desire for good and a desire for justice for all people; connection with the life of the people, the people's environment, which forms the basis of public life; nature and its laws.

2) The second stage of creativity (60-70s of the 19th century) is the stage at which the formation of Tolstoy’s worldview was completed. This is the time when the novels “War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina” and other works were created. Then the writer, along with the person, was more interested in society with its problems and contradictions.

3) The third stage in the evolution of Tolstoy’s worldview is the time of a religious revolution in his consciousness (late 70s - 80s of the 19th century). During this period, Tolstoy carried out a lot of serious mental work; he subjected to a thorough analysis the sacred books of the main world religions - the Bible, Talmud, Buddhist works, the four Gospels were translated anew and interpreted differently, the “Dogmatic Theology” of the Orthodox theologian Macarius, the “Catechism” of the Moscow Metropolitan Philaret, etc. were critically examined. At the same time, “Confession”, “What is my faith?", "The Kingdom of God is within you", "So what should we do" and other works.

The moral and religious revolution in Tolstoy’s worldview did not occur suddenly, under the influence of spiritual insight or any social events, but was prepared by the previous development of the writer’s personality. The formation of Tolstoy's worldview and its main content - the doctrine of non-violence - was greatly influenced by the philosophy of the West and the Ancient East. In his youth, the works of Rousseau, Voltaire, Hume, Western historians Plutarch, Herder, Russian historians N.M. Karamzin, T.N. Granovsky, M.P. Pogodin awakened in Tolstoy a thirst for scientific research, paradoxical thinking, a critical attitude to reality, awareness human connection with all humanity. In his mature period of creativity, the works of Kant, Schopenhauer, ancient Chinese philosophers Laozi, Confucius, Mo Di and others helped the founder of the doctrine of nonviolence to develop his own approach to the moral world of man and its influence on social life.

The essence of the most moral and religious revolution in Tolstoy’s worldview can be briefly expressed in one phrase: it was a transition from an analytical-mechanistic view of the world to a synthetic-harmonic one. Tolstoy stopped understanding the world as heterogeneous chaos and began to understand it as harmonious wholeness. One, expressed by the word God. In ethics, this was a transition from an understanding of morality as the sphere of action of people with obsolete stereotypes of animal aspirations to morality as the sphere of action of rational beings. This meant a transition from the ethics of selfishness and evil to the ethics of Good, where the highest goal of man and society will not be personal gain, but the Good for all. In religion, this revolution meant a change in the Orthodox Christian worldview with its rule “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, a new understanding of Christianity with its Gospel commandments and the idea of ​​love for all people - brothers among themselves and children before infinity, or God .

In socio-political views, this revolution meant a refusal to consider the state as a condition and guarantor of social unity and to consider it as an organ of violence and deception. Tolstoy began to interpret the Church as a harmful and conservative organization that imposes false faith on people and thereby carries out spiritual violence against them.

In general, the moral and religious revolution in Tolstoy’s worldview was prepared by the course of his philosophical and life development and reflected the complexity and contradictory nature of the spiritual atmosphere in Russia at the end of the 19th century. The contradictions between the owners and the proletariat, wealth and poverty, the enlightened minority and the dark downtrodden masses of the people, the social elite and the powerless crowd led to social ferment, which could not but express itself in the spiritual realm. Tolstoy's moral and religious protest was generated by the hopelessness of the lives of peasants and workers, the search for the meaning of life and the social ideal by the advanced intelligentsia, the desire of the people's spirit to take shape in a living, understandable and attractive ideal for the masses. According to Tolstoy, his philosophy of love and Christian ethics could fulfill these tasks.

4) the fourth stage in the development of Tolstoy’s worldview is the preaching stage,” the time of the final formation of Tolstoyism as a religious teaching and social movement (late 80s of the 19th century - 1910). During this period, Tolstoy, as if by inertia, created his works of art “Resurrection”, “Hadji Murat”, the artistic and aesthetic treatise “What is Art?”, and some short stories. But the main content of Tolstoy’s creative activity at this stage is expressed in his journalistic articles. This stage ended with the creation of the philosophical and encyclopedic works “The Circle of Reading” and “The Path of Life,” which summed up Tolstoy’s creative development and absorbed the wisdom of past centuries and Tolstoy’s own thoughts. They provide explanations of his philosophy of love and non-violence, and powerfully criticize the state and church as bodies of violence and coercion. Tolstoy's calls to those in power to stop violence as contrary to the nature of man and his divine essence are interspersed with appeals to revolutionaries to abandon violence in the struggle for power. This did not express the unprincipledness of Tolstoyism, but his reliance on reason as the highest motive in the behavior of any people - rich and poor, smart and not very smart, good and evil. Here lies the root of some of Tolstoy's misconceptions concerning the nature of the social ideal and the methods of its implementation.

What were the driving forces of Tolstoy’s spiritual evolution? Why did Tolstoy’s worldview cause and cause such controversial debates? In fact, if you approach Tolstoy from the standpoint of abstract metaphysics, then he is an eclectic. If we judge him as a politician, then he is an anarchist. In general, his philosophical concept is assessed as utopian. Tolstoy's teachings are characterized by fideism, mysticism, fatalism, pantheism, rigorism, idealism and elements of materialism, the dialectic of the plural and the unified and unsystematic nature, subjectivism and messianism, rationalism and solipsism, abstractness and at the same time an appeal to practice. This variety of features of Tolstoy's worldview was as rich and full of various nuances as life itself. The derogatory assessments of Tolstoy's teachings given to him at the beginning of the 20th century are unfair, if only because they did not take into account the main feature of Tolstoyism - the growth of its polyphony from the polymorphy of life itself.

The only correct approach to Tolstoy's teaching will be to consider it as a philosophy of the unity of life - natural and spiritual. The idea of ​​the universality of life in its diverse manifestations is present throughout Tolstoy’s work and constitutes the essence of his spiritual evolution. The first stage of the writer’s creative activity was influenced by Rousseau’s naturalism, the main thing in which was the idea of ​​natural life; The second stage was predetermined by Tolstoy's approach to history as a natural and necessary life process. At the third stage, during his spiritual revolution, Tolstoy in “Confession” raises the question of the meaning of life, then he writes a philosophical treatise “On Life”, where he formulates his understanding of the laws of life. Finally, at the fourth stage, the preaching stage, Tolstoy, both by his very established concept and by his spiritual evolution, shows what the Path of life is. This path for him is seen as a necessary striving from the particular to the general and unified, from the bodily to the spiritual, from enmity to non-violence, and from non-violence to love, from man to God. Thus, all of the above “isms” characteristic of Tolstoy’s creativity turn out to be only special cases in the general stream of life of Tolstoy’s creative genius. They are not essential for him, but are subordinated to the natural and elemental freedom of his life manifestation. *)

In Tolstoy's teachings on non-violence, the emphasis is on the spiritual insight of a person, on appealing to the conscience and reason of any individual, including those who commit violence. Tolstoy proceeds from the fact that changes in the social order are determined not by external factors - revolutions, wars, constitutions, science - but by internal ones, i.e. religion and morality. The social structure is determined by the state of religious consciousness, or the sum of rules and norms that express a person’s connection with God and with other people. As social progress progresses, the entire structure of people's lives changes, with its contradictions and disasters, the increasing danger of self-destruction of life, which also changes people's ideas about God. This necessarily calls for a change in religious guidelines, a change in the religious consciousness itself. The morality of non-violence thus grows both from the contradictions of social life and from religious consciousness.

Tolstoy's mistake is that he actually neglects the influence of the external environment on morality and limits himself mainly to ontological, moral, religious and political arguments in justifying the idea of ​​​​non-violence. All of them cover the sphere of consciousness, define a person as a rational being striving for Good. Man is subordinate in this striving to the highest law of life - the law of Love, the condition for the implementation of which is non-violence, i.e. a state of balance in relation to both love and Brazda. But man is also a physical, biological being, living in space and time. He fights for life by continuing his Confirmation of our point of view can be found in the works of L. Stein, I. Berlin. I.B. Mardov, V. Paporny. indicated in the bibliography. city, by harmonizing space and creating the material environment necessary for its life. This struggle is expressed in the desire for Beauty, which is also Good, like Love and Truth. The desire for Beauty expresses mainly the bodily and material needs of a person, which, as they are reasonably satisfied, consolidate the cause of Love in a person’s life. Tolstoy ignored this desire - for him, love and its condition, non-violence, are possible only through rational awareness, moral inevitability, spiritual insight. At the same time, Tolstoy does not notice that reason, morality, and spirit are not only autonomous, but also determined by the external environment of human existence. There is a gap between mind and feeling, body and soul, spirit and matter in human life, which turns Tolstoy’s ideal into an inferior one and gives it abstractness.

Tolstoy's contemporaries characterized his teaching as utopian. Now, a hundred years after Tolstoy’s religious, moral and political sermons, we can evaluate him somewhat differently. Tolstoyism is a philosophical teaching about the world, society and man, in which the material and spiritual foundations of existence are united through the love of God into a harmonious system, or the highest Good. The teaching of non-violence is a special case in this philosophy of Good, which shows a necessary condition for the realization of the good of love and the path to this good. Reasonable morality, or the morality of non-violence and love, is the practical application of religious consciousness to people's lives, which is based on a newly understood Christianity as a teaching about love and the moral improvement of man.

The utopianism of Tolstoyism is obvious, and it is determined by the abstractness of his ideals, the incompleteness of the approach to understanding the essence of human life, and the lack of effective means in implementing the doctrine. But this assessment of Tolstoyism is not enough - for what is utopia and what is its role in people's lives?

Utopia is an ideal model of a better future, which has its own natural and ideological prerequisites. The ontological roots of utopia lie in the objective possibilities found in all things and events of the world and in the anticipatory reflection of reality characteristic of living systems. Utopian is information wandering on the horizon of existence, which lies between the present and the future, which can be realized into a systematically organized and harmonious whole. First, ideal realization occurs, as a result of which we receive a utopian doctrine. Then, with a successful confluence of objective and subjective factors, material realization occurs - as a result, we have a project that seemed utopian to us, implemented in practice. Subjective factors should be understood as dreams, desires, hopes, goals and means for realizing the utopian. When the doctrine, or ideal model, is realized and materialized, people are able to test the effectiveness, usefulness and concreteness of the utopia in practice.

It should be taken into account that utopia should be considered in a broad aspect: as technical, geographical, cultural, moral, religious, social, political, etc. In this sense, the progress of society is possible only through the implementation of utopias, which means the victory of a new principle, a new form, a new type of connections, a new system. Thus, it can be observed that when utopias are realized, there is a movement of human thought and action from the abstract to the concrete, from idea to thing, from word to deed. Utopia can become, and in some cases becomes - history confirms this - a means of changing the world.

The novelty of Tolstoy's approach to the world lies in the fact that he views God as infinity and considers him the main category of being. Man transfers his highest value ideals - Good, Truth, Beauty - to the endless and omnipotent Beg. I believe. Hope. Love, giving them the status of necessary phenomena of existence and its laws. The union of finite humanity and God, personifying infinity, is possible in two ways: material and spiritual. The first way is the connection of a finite system with infinity through information, or signals. The second path is the movement of humanity towards God through the idea and, above all, through the idea of ​​​​the immortality of the human race, which puts man on the same level with God. Both paths mean a person’s connection with God, or a religious connection, as really existing and having the prerequisites for its strengthening in practice. Since a materialized connection with infinity is difficult to realize, Tolstoy gives preference to a spiritual connection realized with the help of rational love. Tolstoy's religious utopia, having received the instrument for its implementation, ceases to be an abstract dream and becomes a matter for man and humanity - a matter of affirming love in one's life. The call of the Apostle John “Love one another!” takes on a completely different meaning - a saving, reasonable and only possible meaning for people. As a result, Tolstoy’s statement about the effectiveness of religious consciousness in history is confirmed not only by past religious experience, but also by the very process of realizing utopias.

One can endlessly and from different sides criticize Tolstoyism for its abstractness, and for its utopianism, and for its lack of reliance on spiritual experience, and for its moralizing and rigorism. But in the end, for the sake of objectivity, it should be recognized that the global problems of humanity are the nuclear threat and the depletion of natural resources. environmental pollution, the growth of the world's population, interethnic contradictions, endless wars, the exploitation of people and their poverty, the alienation of the power of governments from the people they rule, put on the agenda the problem of its unification by non-violent means. Humanity has grown from an age when it was spontaneously guided in its existence by animal drives and uncontrolled spatial-mechanical expansion. The time has come for the formation of humanity as an integral entity, or the One, on a reasonable basis. This only confirms the correctness of Tolstoy’s prophecy about the unity of people in divine love and gives us the right to consider Tolstoyism as a humanistic utopia, making a significant contribution to the cultural treasury of humanity.

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250. Hamburger K. Tolstoi. Gestalt und Problem. Güttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963. - 174 s.

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Tolstoy was a representative of the highest noble circle of Russia, a count. Until the 80s, he led a completely aristocratic lifestyle, believing that a person of his circle should strive to increase wealth. This is exactly how he initially raised his wife of semi-noble origin, S.A. Bers, who was 16 years younger than her husband. At the same time, he always despised immoral people and actively sympathized with powerless peasants. So, back in the late 50s, he opened a school for peasant children in Yasnaya Polyana and taught there himself, helping those in need financially.

The entire ideological position of the writer, both before and after the turning point in his consciousness that occurred in the 80s, was built on the denial of violence, “non-resistance to evil through violence.” However, it is well known that Tolstoy always decisively exposed evil both in his actions and in his articles and works. He believed that the world would change for the better when every person engaged in self-improvement based on doing good to other people. Therefore, it would be more correct to call Tolstoy’s formula “resistance to evil with good.”

The essence of the turning point in Tolstoy’s worldview in the 80s lies in the rejection of lordly life and an attempt to transition to the positions and lifestyle of the patriarchal Russian peasantry. The writer considered various kinds of self-restraint, including vegetarianism, simplification of life, recognition of the need for everyday physical labor, including agricultural work, assistance to the poor, and an almost complete renunciation of property, as necessary attributes of such changes. The latter circumstance hit hardest on his large family, to which he himself had instilled completely different habits in past times.

Towards the end of the century, Tolstoy delved deeper into the essence of the Gospel and, seeing the enormous gap between the teachings of Christ and official Orthodoxy, renounced the official church. His position was the need for every Christian to search for God within himself, and not in the official church. In addition, his views at this time were influenced by Buddhist philosophy and religion.

Being himself a thinker, philosopher, rationalist, prone to all kinds of schemes and classifications, he at the same time believed that a person should live exclusively with his heart, and not with his mind. That is why his favorite heroes always seek naturalness, live by feelings rather than by reason, or come to this as a result of long spiritual searches.

A person, according to L. Tolstoy, must constantly change, develop, going through mistakes, new searches and overcomings. And he considered complacency to be “mental meanness.”

L. Tolstoy’s literary discovery is a deep and detailed analysis of the hero’s thoughts and experiences, the motives of his actions. The internal struggle in the human soul became the main subject of artistic research for the writer. N.G. Chernyshevsky called this artistic method discovered by Tolstoy “dialectics of the soul.”

“This is not a person, but some kind of colossus in terms of mental strength, wealth of mental resources.” M. Gorky

The formation of consciousness was carried out in close contact with nature and ordinary people. Impressions of village life were later expressed in

Formation of consciousness
carried out in close
contact with nature and
ordinary people.
Impressions from
village life later
expressed their love for
"to the man." Then he
says that it is popular
"peasant" truth -
salvation for Russia.

Tolstoy differed significantly from the heterodox intelligentsia of the 60s. For him, moral problems were much more important than political ones, he would

Tolstoy was significantly different from the raznochinsky intelligentsia of the 60s
years. For him, moral issues were much more important
political, he was completely far from the revolutionary democratic positions of his contemporaries. He criticizes
bourgeoisie, their heartlessness and callousness:
“This is an event that historians of our time must
write down in fiery indelible letters!”

However, Leo Tolstoy was a rather controversial person. Thus, criticizing the depravity and immorality of the bourgeoisie in the story “Lucerne,” he

However, Leo Tolstoy was quite controversial
personality. Thus criticizing depravity and immorality
bourgeoisie in the story "Lucerne", he is at the end of the story
calls people to forgiveness, to humility before
eternal laws of human society. Author
speaks of the presence of “endless harmony” in life,
beyond the control of man. These contradictions are like
Lenin convincingly showed that they were created by special
Tolstoy's position among the struggling classes and
ideologies, and not by its individual properties.
“The contradictions in Tolstoy’s views, from this point of view,
- a real mirror of those contradictory conditions in
which staged the historical activity
peasantry in our revolution,” Lenin asserted in
1908, directing this thesis against widespread
then theories about Tolstoy’s “duality”.

Working as a teacher in the 60s, he became more and more close to the peasants. In 1861, he actively took part in protecting the interests of peasants

Working as a teacher in the 60s
years he more and more
gets close to the peasants. IN
1861 he actively accepts
participation in advocacy
peasants and even
signs a note about
liberation of peasants from
land allotment. This
he causes discontent
landowners, as well as
mistrust of the government.
Then he repeatedly
mentioned his
dissatisfaction with the rules
Tsarist Russia.

After the reform of 1861, a turning point came in the life of Leo Tolstoy. He foresaw that a social catastrophe was brewing in the country. He's everything

After the reform of 1861, a turning point came in
life of Leo Tolstoy. He foresaw what was brewing in the country
social catastrophe. He is getting closer and closer to the worker
by the people:
“What happened to me is that the life of our circle - the rich,
scientists - not only disgusted me, but also lost all
meaning. All our actions, reasoning, science, art, all this appeared to me in a new meaning. I realized that everything
This is pure self-indulgence and you can’t look for meaning in it.”
This is how the break with the nobility occurs.

He moves to the positions of the patriarchal peasantry and criticizes the state system. Denial of the state, church, self

He moves to positions
patriarchal peasantry and
criticizes
political system. Negation
state, church, property.
Sees the purpose of a person in
self-improvement.
However, his views were utopian.
Believed that the path to correction was
moral regeneration of people.
By promoting these ideas in books and
articles: “Criticism of dogmatic
theology", "What is my faith?",
“So what should we do?” etc. So
Tolstoyanism is formed.

Tolstoy was a representative of the highest noble circle of Russia, a count. Until the 80s, he led a completely aristocratic lifestyle, believing that a person of his circle should strive to increase wealth. This is exactly how he initially raised his wife of semi-noble origin, S.A. Bers, who was 16 years younger than her husband. At the same time, he always despised immoral people and actively sympathized with powerless peasants. So, back in the late 50s, he opened a school for peasant children in Yasnaya Polyana and taught there himself, helping those in need financially.

The entire ideological position of the writer, both before and after the turning point in his consciousness that occurred in the 80s, was built on the denial of violence, “non-resistance to evil through violence.” However, it is well known that Tolstoy always decisively exposed evil both in his actions and in his articles and works. He believed that the world would change for the better when every person engaged in self-improvement based on doing good to other people. Therefore, it would be more correct to call Tolstoy’s formula “resistance to evil with good.”

The essence of the turning point in Tolstoy’s worldview in the 80s lies in the rejection of lordly life and an attempt to transition to the positions and lifestyle of the patriarchal Russian peasantry. The writer considered various kinds of self-restraint, including vegetarianism, simplification of life, recognition of the need for everyday physical labor, including agricultural work, assistance to the poor, and an almost complete renunciation of property, as necessary attributes of such changes. The last circumstance hit the big family the hardest, the members of which he himself had instilled in past times completely different habits.

Towards the end of the century, Tolstoy delved more deeply into the essence of the Gospel and, seeing the enormous gap between the teachings of Christ and official Orthodoxy, renounced the official Orthodox Church. His position was the need for every Christian to search for God within himself, and not in the official church. In addition, his views at this time were influenced by Buddhist philosophy and religion.

Being himself a thinker, philosopher, rationalist, prone to all kinds of schemes and classifications, he at the same time believed that a person should live exclusively with his heart, and not with his mind. That is why his favorite heroes always seek naturalness, live by feelings rather than by reason, or come to this as a result of long spiritual searches.

A person, according to L. Tolstoy, must constantly change, develop, going through mistakes, new searches and overcomings. And he considered complacency to be “mental meanness.”

L. Tolstoy’s literary discovery is a deep and detailed analysis of the hero’s thoughts and experiences, the motives of his actions. The internal struggle in the human soul became the main subject of artistic research for the writer. N.G. Chernyshevsky called this artistic method discovered by Tolstoy “dialectics of the soul.”

Portrayal of war in Sevastopol Stories

War, according to Tolstoy, is not banners, fanfares, beautiful orderly rows, great feats and drum rolls. War is an ugly, dirty business, hard work, suffering, blood, tragedy, horror - everything that leads people to hostility and disunity.

War reveals the true essence of every person, but at the same time it does not kill the best human manifestations. According to Tolstoy, peace and life will still defeat the war, including in the souls of people.

True patriotism is not flashy and loud, but inconspicuous, sensual, deeply internal, not ostentatious. True heroism is also shy and not vain. Love for the Motherland and the ability for asceticism are hidden, according to Tolstoy, in the depths of the soul of a Russian person.

Based on the previous, it is clear that Tolstoy condemns Napoleonism, self-righteous vanity, the hypocrisy of false patriotism and the “theoretical” heroism of the secular aristocracy.

The writer exposes all kinds of lies and affirms the truth as a criterion for assessing human life or a historical event.

War, according to Tolstoy, is senseless and unnatural. Its outcome depends not on commanders and other subjective factors, but on the will and mood of the masses, that is, on an objective factor. Tolstoy recognizes only the war of liberation as true and permissible.

The writer stands for the truth of a common man with a popular worldview. He considers simplicity, goodness and truth to be the criteria of truth.

Tolstoy especially notes the unity of thoughts and feelings that embrace all Russian people at a time of national danger.

Finally, war exposes and sharpens the main feeling in a person: according to Tolstoy, this is a feeling of shame.

All these lines will receive a convincing artistic embodiment later, in the epic novel War and Peace.

"War and Peace". Features of the epic novel.

Tolstoy's work does not fit into the usual forms and boundaries of the classical European novel of that time. The author himself did not consider his work to be either a novel, a poem, or a historical chronicle.

Western writers (O. Balzac, E. Zola), when implementing large-scale epic plans, created a series of novels, each of which raised its own level of life. Tolstoy is distinguished by his panoramic and holistic thinking: for him the world is one, and life is common. Therefore, in his work, both war and peace capture every person, and at the same time everyone absorbs the whole world, lives with the whole people. This leads Tolstoy to the creation of a fundamentally new genre - the epic novel.

Tolstoy destroys the usual division of life into private and historical. Nikolai Rostov in everyday life (hunting, losing to Dolokhov) experiences equally strong and even similar feelings to those that gripped him in the historical battles on the Amstetten Bridge and near Ostrovnaya. And Prince Andrei, mortally wounded in Borodino, in a heroic moment remembers Natasha at the first ball, and his feelings come to life. All of Tolstoy's heroes exist simultaneously in two dimensions - everyday and existential, in other words, in family, love and at the same time in history and even in eternity, especially at the border of life and death.

Tolstoy's private life and historical life are interdependent and determine each other. National confusion and disunity before Austerlitz in 1805 are tantamount to defeat and at the same time will affect not only the failure of the battle, but also Pierre’s mistaken marriage to Helen, the feeling of being lost and the loss of the meaning of life. At the same time, the patriotic upsurge of 1812 will bring Natasha and Andrey together again and make Pierre happy.

The composition of the novel is characterized by the fact that all autonomous pictures are connected into a single canvas not only by plot, but also by internal logic, the breath of the whole. The writer successfully applies in the novel the principle of parallel narration about events occurring simultaneously with different characters in different places, which also confirms the thesis about the unity of the world.

Each true hero of Tolstoy gradually frees himself from the previous conditions of life, from everything random, superficial, and acquires the fundamental foundations of existence. These foundations are “simplicity, goodness and truth”, they are preserved by the people and some of the best representatives of the Russian nobility who are close to the people come to them.

It is in this that the “folk thought” is reflected, a kind of soul of the epic novel, which brings together manifestations of existence that are distant from each other to unity.

Another important idea of ​​the epic novel is the “family thought”: a happy family is the basis of universal national happiness.


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