Ressurrection: an Ethical Approach
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2024.223599Keywords:
Lev Tolstoy, Russian literature, Russian philosophy, EthicsAbstract
This article seeks to describe and analyze how, in Resurrection, in an exercise much less aesthetic than ethical, Tolstoy aims to point out the problems of a society controlled by the Church and the values of Modernity, a consequence of his particular interpretation of Christianity, which led him to criticize and reject the configuration of a society such as Russia in the 19th century. This analysis proposes to demonstrate how the particular understanding of Christianity and religion appears in a general way in Tolstoy's mature art, starting from his critique of bourgeois civilization and art as his language of resistance and his favorable vehicle for the dissemination of values that are common to all the humanity. The article develops, in a more contributory view of Tolstoy's work, the relationship between art and religion as an establishment of meaning, shaping an ethical proposal for art, demonstrating how, in Resurrection, we find the religious answers that the author wants to give to his ultimate questions, exegeting reality and reacting to modernity, overcoming it.
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