«ЕСЛИ НЕ БУДЕТЕ КАК ДЕТИ…»: НРАВСТВЕННЫЙ ОБРАЗЕЦ ЖИЗНИ ЧЕЛОВЕКА В ТВОРЧЕСКОМ СОЗНАНИИ РУССКИХ ПИСАТЕЛЕЙ
“IF YOU’RE NOT LIKE CHILDREN…”: MORAL PATTERN OF HUMAN LIFE IN THE CREATIVE CONCIOUSNESS OF RUSSIAN WRITERS

Author(s): Nina Alekseevna Dvoryashina
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: сhildhood; childishness; property of the personality; spiritual solvency; moral criterion;
Summary/Abstract: Judgment and treatment by the Russian writers of an evangelical order of Christ are presented in the article: "… if don't address and you won't be as children, you won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven". Many people reflected over a question: what does it mean "to be as children". Their private answers noted a way of comprehension of the general truth the Russian national consciousness. In N. Fedorov's works being a child – the following to the blameless nature of the child conducting to family relations of all people. In V. Zenkovsky's understanding childishness – the embodiment of the original spiritual life keeping communications with the Father Nebesny. L. Tolstoy saw in an evangelical appeal refusal of any violence, innocence the evil, ability to forgiveness and life at God's will. For F. Dostoyevsky childishness – the measure of moral solvency of the person, that saving beginning which grants him a possibility of redemption promotes his spiritual regeneration. In F. Sologub's creativity childishness in a man is the embodiment of innocence, joyful and fresh acceptance of the world, spiritual dominant, which defines all his subsequent course of life. The loss of these properties of soul inevitably conducts to an evil celebration. Z. Gippius perceived this property of the personality as sincere mobility as existence in her of "the sacred law" – conscience. S. Durylin appreciated at "great eternally children's beginning" show of Divine light with its inviolable purity, truthfulness, joy. Judgments of the Russian word artists confirm unconditional recognition of childishness as a moral sample for organization by the person of the life as criterion for evaluation of her spiritual solvency.

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