Absolute and freedom in the philosophy of F. M. Dostoyevsky

Annotation

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s legacy is both literary and philosophical. For classical philosophy, in which the Russian writer thought, the subject was the absolute unity of the universe, which was revealed through the dialectics of thought and being. The development of the idea of absolute freedom in the history of philosophy, which was influenced by Christian thought, raised the question of the unity of the essence and meaning of the absolute. In German idealism, this unity was defined in relation to the concept of absolute goodness, while in Dostoevsky’s work, it was achieved through the assertion of the value of universal harmony in the universe for humans and the congruence of this harmony with their freedom. The philosopher associated the path to this truth with the name of Christ.

Keywords

Dostoevsky, absolute, freedom, thinking, existence, harmony, ancient philosophy, German idealism, Christianity

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