The concept of unity of faith and knowledge in philosophy of F.M. Dostoyevsky

The paper discusses the philosophical understanding of the deep relationship of faith and knowledge in the philosophy of F.M. Dostoyevsky. The author continues to use different methodological approaches - metaphysical, dialectical, hermeneutic and phenomenological, and reveals the essence of this issue using the philosophy of the relationship between faith and knowledge proposed by F.M. Dostoyevsky. In Dostoyevsky 's system there are no main and secondary beginnings, but there is a central one - Absolute. The variety of connections and relations of the beginnings of his metaphysical system are presented in the pages of his artistic works. Through this variety the world, man, infinity, eternity, man in the dynamics of his changes, the most important attributes of human being (including faith and knowledge) are constructed. Faith has another important feature: faith in Christ for F.M. Dostoevsky is faith in Man. And Man is somehow endowed with knowledge. Therefore, faith and knowledge will necessarily be refracted through the main object of description (and research) of the writer and philosopher - a Man. Attributive unity can be seen in the fact that faith and knowledge are interrelated and inseparable elements acquired by man in his holistic development of a single spiritual beginning, in which both the attitude of man towards himself and his inner world expressed primarily in faith, and the experience of human interaction with the surrounding world, nature, space, expressed mainly in knowledge are reflected. The way of Man, his formation, faith in the way of Man and the changes in himself and in the world taking place are the most interesting for F.M. Dostoyevsky. He seeks to find answers to eternal, so called “cursed” questions in his Philosophy. In many ways, the answers he received are not only new and topical, but also contain an enduring metaphysical and, therefore, absolute meaning.