title: The debates on the sense of history between F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy and the idea of “spiritual empire” as a form of historical development of the mankind
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metadata.value: Evlampiev, Igor I.
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metadata.value: Matveeva, Inga Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:41:05Z
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metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:41:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Evlampiev I. I., Matveeva I. Yu. The debates on the sense of history between F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy and the idea of “spiritual empire” as a form of historical development of the mankind. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, pp. 319–331. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.304
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.304
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38499
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article proves the hypothesis that F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Raw Youth expresses the conception
  of history directed against the model proposed by L. N. Tolstoy in his War and Peace.
  Tolstoy maintains that the course of history is determined by the spontaneous interactions of
  elementary biological powers acting within individuals and within nations; he firmly rejects the
  idea that individuals can influence history by means of their rational will. In his novel The Raw
  Youth, Dostoevsky defends totally contrary position: only few “higher personalities” can immediately
  influence history by means of their great ideas, among which the religious ones play
  especially important role. The article shows that Dostoevsky’s critique had probably an impact
  on Tolstoy; as a result, in his late religious teaching, he adopted the position which he had previously
  rejected. Now he thinks that only few “best people” living in the strong compliance with
  the Jesus Christ’s doctrine direct society towards the way of spiritual perfectness and thus they
  determine the course of history. This general model of historical development of society can be
  named as “spiritual Empire” which is contrary to the accepted western liberal tradition generated
  by the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Within the model of “spiritual Empire”, the aim of the
  development is represented with the more and more spiritual unity of people and with the fact
  that everybody serve to the highest values (the creation of culture); such society should be ruled
  by the “highest personalities” who achieved the highest spiritual development and influence
  the society rather with the help of their spiritual authority than by means of the material power.
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metadata.value: The reserarch was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 21-18-00153 “The idea of
  empire and the idea of revolution: two poles of the Russian socio-political worldview in philosophy and
  culture of the 19th–21th centuries” (St Petersburg State University).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian philosophy of history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leo Tolstoy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liberalism and authoritarianism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The debates on the sense of history between F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy and the idea of “spiritual empire” as a form of historical development of the mankind
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