The article gives a variant of understanding the worldview of the writer-philosopher A. Platonov, whose work is among the largest phenomena of Russian and world culture of the twentieth century. Complex ideological concepts appear as an accessible picture of the world of the original thinker. A wide philosophical context, historical time, personal beliefs and meanings, knowledge, experience of the writer himself demonstrate the complexity of the process of moving towards the truth. The heroes of his works often animate the contradictory tendencies of the era, thus the author checks the viability of ideas. The conclusions that Platonov comes to give food for his own thoughts and form his own definite ideological position.