THE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM OF DOSTOEVSKY (AN ATTEMPT OF RECONSTRUCTION ) Trajče Stojanov The three main thematic areas in which Dostoevsky's philosophy is built are: Epistemology, Anthropology and Religion. The establishing of the problem is set within the frames of epistemology where, mainly through Records from the Underground, the analysis of problems of cognition and antinomies to which the mind comes was made. After locating these problems within epistemology, as well as determining that they cannot be resolved within those boundaries, they are blending together in the area of anthropology. Here is the basic problem that Dostoevsky is interested in - a man, placed in the light of freedom, as the determinant of his essence. Dostoevsky’s final synthesis is shown in the field of religion. The synthesis is in Christ which is more than merely a form of moral pattern and ideal, he is God-Man in whom all antagonisms get their conciliation and sense. Thus ratio has definitely moved into a unique mystical realism in which unity is achieved in the above - empirical sphere. Epistemology Dostoevsky sets the explicitly philosophical issues in the sphere of epistemology. Right there, where he collided with a wall, in an attempt to resolve them. That dualism is imminent to the consciousness of man is shown in the underground, but it is also shown that the mind is unable to resolve it. How can reason answer the deep metaphysical questions that torture the human existence? Is the mind able to answer this challenge of life? Dostoevsky did not formally work out in detail all the four antinomies addressed by Kant in his Critique (Transcendental Dialectic, part Antithetic of the pure mind). 1 It explicitly deals with only the second (immortality) and the fourth antinomy (God). But, in fact, with Dostoevsky it is one antinomy. If one antinomy is proven, the second one is also proven, and vice versa. The resolution of all antinomies depends on the resolution of one. God exists = immortality exists, freedom exists, there is moral. There is no God = there is no immortality, no freedom, and no moral. It is the only antinomy, the only question; all human suffering is reduced to one: does God exist, or does 1