Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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The Idiot
In the gambler, he writes about us, or the psychology of the gamblers. He says this is totally naive. Not only do people not want to be happy largely, he says, if the goal of humanity is happiness, then all human history has been a mistake. So why should society try to maximize everybody's happiness?
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