ANALYZING F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT FROM A NIHILISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The paper studies religion in Dostoevsky’s works. The main task of the study is to interpret Dostoevsky’s view of religion within the framework of a nihilistic vision rather than within the framework of traditional religion. Russian literature is strongly influenced by Orthodox Christian thought and has a strong religious basis. The author shows that Vladimir Soloviev, as one of the representatives of the theology of religion, not only connected religious thought with literature, but also used Orthodoxy as a methodological approach to the theological interpretation of Dostoevsky’s works. The author seeks to overcome the orthodox interpretation of Dostoevsky’s works and reinterpret Dostoevsky’s religious thought using nihilism in modern theory as a research theory. The paper concludes that nihilism is not a negative, misanthropic ideological attitude and that nihilism in Dostoevsky’s works reflects the writer’s understanding of the world and human nature.