Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Metaphysics and Axiology of Crime and Personality in F. Dostoevsky’s Novel “Crime and Punishment”

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (4)
Authors
Baiturina, Ulzhan K.; Mokletsova, Irina V.; Razumovskaya, Veronica A.
Contact information
Baiturina, Ulzhan K.: L.N. Gumilev Eurasian National University Astana, Kazakhstan; ; Mokletsova, Irina V.: M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation; Razumovskaya, Veronica A.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Keywords
Raskolnikov’s Bonapartism; phenomenology of crime and punishment; Resentment consciousness; repentance
Abstract

This article covers a phenomenological study of the irrational/rational in the theory of law in Dostoyevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”. The different sides of the irrational and the rational are focused around the Paradox of Napoleon, expanded in the Russian idea of law. The paper is devoted to a description of Raskolnikov’s Bonapartism as the source of the Russian idea of law. The paper distinguishes rational and irrational in the theory of law. As an irrational nature, it explores resentment consciousness and the connection with it of freedom/conscience and individual morality. The hero’s delusion, his ‘powerlessness’ in the ontological and religious sense, is analyzed as a value concept of resentment consciousness The paper classifies the characters according to the features of resentment consciousness and is based on the dichotomy “mean person” / “mean” consciousness of value. The double treatment of crime and punishment, in its ethical and criminal nature, is considered as the source of two types of comprehension of death, from a physical and a metaphysical position. The contrast of the ethical in the phenomenology of crime has become a justification for the hero and levels the criminal meaning of the crime. Therefore, the priority of repentance and the absence of remorse as the main concepts of orthodox axiology. The significance of the problem under consideration lies in the research into the specificity of the formation of a philosophical and religious conception of Russian reality and Russian idea in Dostoevsky’s works as a peculiarity of his philosophical and literary method. The novelty of the work lies in the use of a phenomenological approach to the description of the ontological and sociological aspects of the theory of law, correlating them with the category of consciousness

Pages
677–686
EDN
UIQISG
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150067

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