
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist
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Dostoesky's Theology
In brothers, for example, he's putting inte the mouth of his characters, like real deep arguments in favor of atheism and against it. A notes from the underground also was viciously attacking utilitarianism. Iif we made a perfect world, humanity would reject it because we don't want happiness. And this is almost like from plato too. Like plato says, if you're educated enough, you will be happy, and your freedom will correspond to happiness, and nobody will ever do evil. Did you know that the first metrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. You know, whole crops
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