From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview

The article discusses the history of the creation of the "Code of Thought of Leo Tolstoy", which reflects the writer's system of views and reconstructs the religious and philosophical foundations of his work. This literary and philosophical monument began to be created during Tolstoy&...

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Main Authors: Nadezda Kasavina, Yury Prokopchuk, Ksenia Semenova
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Language:Russian
Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2024-12-01
Series:Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
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Online Access:https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/8453
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description The article discusses the history of the creation of the "Code of Thought of Leo Tolstoy", which reflects the writer's system of views and reconstructs the religious and philosophical foundations of his work. This literary and philosophical monument began to be created during Tolstoy's lifetime and with his participation, the process of collecting and systematizing the thoughts of the classic took several decades. The Code presents various aspects of the writer's religious, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic views. The sources of the Code are Tolstoy's artistic, philosophical and journalistic works. The study of the stages of the evolution of the thinker's worldview shows a clear tendency to create metatexts that reflect all the facets of his religious and philosophical teaching. However, the "Code of Thoughts" was never published, despite the efforts of Tolstoy's closest disciples and followers. The authors of the article trace the influence of the structure of the writer's last collection of thoughts "The Way of Life" on the overall content composition of the "Code of Thoughts", showing that it was it that was taken as the basis for the formation of the text setting forth the main features of Tolstoy's worldview. With the help of archival sources introduced into scientific circulation (documents from the funds of V.G. Chertkov, N.N. Gusev and others), the authors made an attempt to clarify the features of the work on this monument, to show the influence of the socio-cultural, political context, life circumstances that prevented the publication of "The Code of Thoughts of L.N. Tolstoy", which was supposed to become a bright page in Russian philosophical thought. "The Way of Life" was a guideline for the creators of the "Code of Thoughts", which was a way of religious and philosophical conceptualization of the writer's heritage, the key foundations of his consideration of man, spiritual life, social and cultural changes. The work shows the importance of this work, which has not yet been published, for understanding the history of Russian culture, for the interpretation of topical problems of modern Tolstoy studies. The methods found for reconstructing the worldview architectonics of the "Code of Thoughts" can be the basis for continuing its study and further work on preparing for publication a monument that resurrects the work and aspirations of both the writer himself and his like-minded people.
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spelling doaj-art-a51bdbe2d98f4fcc96ce050a6f75925f2024-12-21T12:55:02ZrusSt. Tikhon's Orthodox UniversityВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия1991-640X2409-46922024-12-0111411499112http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturI2024114.99-1126From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldviewNadezda Kasavina0Yury Prokopchuk1Ksenia Semenova2Institute of Philosophy of RAS; Moscow, RussiaState Museum of L. N. Tolstoy; Moscow, Russian FederationState Museum of L. N. Tolstoy; Moscow, Russian FederationThe article discusses the history of the creation of the "Code of Thought of Leo Tolstoy", which reflects the writer's system of views and reconstructs the religious and philosophical foundations of his work. This literary and philosophical monument began to be created during Tolstoy's lifetime and with his participation, the process of collecting and systematizing the thoughts of the classic took several decades. The Code presents various aspects of the writer's religious, philosophical, moral, and aesthetic views. The sources of the Code are Tolstoy's artistic, philosophical and journalistic works. The study of the stages of the evolution of the thinker's worldview shows a clear tendency to create metatexts that reflect all the facets of his religious and philosophical teaching. However, the "Code of Thoughts" was never published, despite the efforts of Tolstoy's closest disciples and followers. The authors of the article trace the influence of the structure of the writer's last collection of thoughts "The Way of Life" on the overall content composition of the "Code of Thoughts", showing that it was it that was taken as the basis for the formation of the text setting forth the main features of Tolstoy's worldview. With the help of archival sources introduced into scientific circulation (documents from the funds of V.G. Chertkov, N.N. Gusev and others), the authors made an attempt to clarify the features of the work on this monument, to show the influence of the socio-cultural, political context, life circumstances that prevented the publication of "The Code of Thoughts of L.N. Tolstoy", which was supposed to become a bright page in Russian philosophical thought. "The Way of Life" was a guideline for the creators of the "Code of Thoughts", which was a way of religious and philosophical conceptualization of the writer's heritage, the key foundations of his consideration of man, spiritual life, social and cultural changes. The work shows the importance of this work, which has not yet been published, for understanding the history of Russian culture, for the interpretation of topical problems of modern Tolstoy studies. The methods found for reconstructing the worldview architectonics of the "Code of Thoughts" can be the basis for continuing its study and further work on preparing for publication a monument that resurrects the work and aspirations of both the writer himself and his like-minded people.https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/8453"leo tolstoy's code of thoughts" "the way of life" tolstoy's "christian teaching" tolstoy studies v.g. chertkov f.a. strakhov tolstoy's religious and moral teaching tolstoy's worldview«свод мыслей л.н. толстого» «путь жизни» «христианское учение» толстого толстоведение в.г. чертков ф.а. страхов религиозно-нравственное учение толстого мировоззрение толстого
spellingShingle Nadezda Kasavina
Yury Prokopchuk
Ksenia Semenova
From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
"leo tolstoy's code of thoughts"
"the way of life"
tolstoy's "christian teaching"
tolstoy studies
v.g. chertkov
f.a. strakhov
tolstoy's religious and moral teaching
tolstoy's worldview
«свод мыслей л.н. толстого»
«путь жизни»
«христианское учение» толстого
толстоведение
в.г. чертков
ф.а. страхов
религиозно-нравственное учение толстого
мировоззрение толстого
title From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
title_full From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
title_fullStr From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
title_full_unstemmed From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
title_short From “The way of life” to “The code of thoughts”: problems of reconstruction of Leo Tolstoy’s religious-philosophical worldview
title_sort from the way of life to the code of thoughts problems of reconstruction of leo tolstoy s religious philosophical worldview
topic "leo tolstoy's code of thoughts"
"the way of life"
tolstoy's "christian teaching"
tolstoy studies
v.g. chertkov
f.a. strakhov
tolstoy's religious and moral teaching
tolstoy's worldview
«свод мыслей л.н. толстого»
«путь жизни»
«христианское учение» толстого
толстоведение
в.г. чертков
ф.а. страхов
религиозно-нравственное учение толстого
мировоззрение толстого
url https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/8453
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