The world, according to Belinsky, is in constant motion and development. Nature is a process of endless development, the destruction of the old and the emergence of the new. But, being an idealist in philosophy, he considered the eternal and absolute idea to be the basis, the source of this constant and endless development. "For this idea," he wrote, "there is no rest: it lives incessantly, that is, it creates incessantly in order to destroy, and destroys in order to create. She is embodied in a brilliant sun, in a magnificent planet, in a prodigal comet; she lives and breathes – both in the stormy tides of the seas, and in the fierce hurricane of deserts, and in the rustle of leaves, and in the murmur of a stream, and in the roar of a lion, and in the tear of a baby, and in the smile of beauty, and in the will of man, and in the slender creatures of genius…" (Belinsky V.G. Collected works in 3 volumes, vol. 1, 1948. p. 17). With the help of dialectics, he sought to theoretically substantiate the regularity of the endless progress of social life and the denial of old forms of life, the need to achieve the general welfare of members of society.