L.N.Tolstoy as a Philosopher: Pro et Contra

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the origins and the nature of L.N.Tolstoy’s worldview. The paper dwells mainly on the problems of the philosophical qualification of the ideological heritage of the great Russian writer and the possibility of the final definition of the importance of his moral and religious doctrine in the history of the domestic and world philosophical thought. The significant problem of the expediency of setting of the philosophical works standards in general is of prime consideration in the frames of the author’s ideas concerning the nature and the specificity of the philosophical credo of L.N.Tolstoy.