THE OBVIOUS NUANCES OF THE “BIG COUNTRY” (BASED ON THE RESEARCH BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND ALEKSANDR PANARIN)

The article analyzes the status and potential dynamic of the “Big Country”, or Russian civilization. This dynamic is significantly determined by the apologia of traditional values, the spirit and patriotic motivation of the Russian people, and Russia’s historical and cultural achievements. The novelty of the study is associated with an attempt to understand its basic specifics and the main path through the nuances of the metaphysics of the “Big Country”. A new understanding of Russia as a Mainland Civilization based on Religion is also announced. The method of hermeneutics and the method of analysis are used. To achieve this aim, a number of works by famous Russian thinkers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Panarin, and others were analyzed. Russian philosophy has always sincerely and strenuously sought answers to the main questions of man and humanity, with little regard for strict rational science. Its searches and conclusions were often reduced to an apology for the spiritual and moral tradition, with a national emphasis. Its value-based “imperialism” was perceived and is perceived as destructive to Western liberal democratic values. The article shows that Russia is not an Island or a blurred Eurasia, but a Civilization – a Continent based on Religion. The article reveals the reasons for the rejection of Russia by the West, fear of it and a centuries-old racist attitude to it. The inevitability and long-term nature of the clash of Russian and Western civilizations is asserted; the causes and disadvantages of Western axiological and philosophical-ideological positions are given. The probability of Russia’s realization of the “completeness of the Logos” is proved, and specific aspects of this modern completeness are shown. The Russian civilization scares the “civilized world” with its stable Tradition, certain non-bourgeois values, “barbarism” (from the point of view of the West), indiscipline, unwillingness to remake itself under Western standards and insufficient rationality. The aspects of “too much” in both Russia and the West are shown, which expose the deep contradictions of the two defining civilizations. The West is too unchristian, too free, too lost. And this will not allow it to overcome the spiritual Big Country. In general, the clashing Russia and the West are inevitably called upon to peacefully coexist, complementing each other. It is necessary to fight for the continuation of the cultural, economic and political consensus of these civilizations.