«The challenge of the intellectual»: the personality and worldview experience of D.S. Likhachev-scientist, publicist, public figure

Abstract

The era in which a person is born determines his further life path, the way he thinks, emotionally experiences, evaluatively judges, communicates, and morally acts. An outstanding Russian scientist, cultural critic, researcher of ancient Russian literature and textology, public figure and publicist, a true intellectual and citizen of his country, Academician Dmitry Likhachev shared the fate of the country, all the trials that fell to it in the XX century. The article is devoted to the study of the personality, moral and ideological attitudes of D. S. Likhachev, whose spiritual and moral potential, being laid down in the family, was formed in a dialogue with the best teachers and outstanding contemporaries who contributed to the formation of his humanistic worldview and civil position at different stages of life. In the personality of D. S. Likhachev, courage and dignity, loyalty to high principles, moral demands on oneself and other people, intellectual freedom were harmoniously combined.