Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Underground Man on Free Will

Type:: paper
Date:: October 27, 2013
In:: Agency and Will, Law and Government

Dostoevsky’s unprecedented short story, Notes from Underground, is a philosophical treatise of striking originality. In the early nineteenth century, with the remarkable successes of science ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky (as Ivan) on Justice and Forgiveness

Type:: quote
Date:: November 01, 1880
In:: Existentialism, Theism

There was in those days a general of aristocratic connections, the owner of great estates, one of those men — somewhat exceptional, I believe, even ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky (as Ivan Karamazov) on Creative Evil

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1880
In:: Being Human

A Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky (as Ivan) on Evil Undone

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1880
In:: Existentialism

It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept. Let me make it ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky on Eden

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1877
In:: Being Human

Oh, everything was just as it is with us, except that everything seemed to be bathed in the radiance of some public festival and of ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky on Nostalgic Yearning

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1877
In:: Sehnsucht

I often told them that I had had a presentiment of it years ago and that all that joy and glory had been perceived by me ... » Go

Fyodor Dostoevsky on Love and Suffering

Type:: quote
Date:: January 01, 1877
In:: Being Human, Existentialism

But are such repetitions possible in the universe? Can that be nature’s law? And if that is an earth there, is it the same earth ... » Go