Studying of M.Y. Lermontov's works as a philosophical and religious system: a problem of metology

Abstract

The article makes an effort to
ground possibility and necessity of studying
M. Lermontovs works as a religious and philosophical
system. Author states that basis of
Lermontovs works represent integral religious
and philosophical system. Key problem of Lermontovs
works, such as historical way of Russia,
the idea of individual religious choice and
human responsibility for it, struggle of good
and evil as a main content of historical process,
are determinant categories of individual and
social existence, and all that allows us to consider
Lermontovs works as a consequentially
pronounced ideological system. The author argues
that while studying Lermontovs works
as a phenomenon inspired by Russian spiritual
and cultural life it is expedient to apply both
achievements of literary studying and philosophical
thought.