Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Most consider democracy to be the best form of government. Like all other forms government, it still requires a certain amount of faith to be placed in the officials’ elected, though, in democracy, people have a greater role than in other forms of government. A democracy also requires an informed population on issues within politics, which is generally provided by the press. This point in history marks an especially divisive era between ideologies and a movement of populism. Candidates from both…

The final evil is active sin which is an active precursor to passive suffering. Also, in Western religion and philosophy, good and evil is seen as a necessity. Evil and good go together without, one can exist without the other. For, example Fyodor Dostoyevsky stated the point that if evil and suffering disappeared the world would become dissatisfactory. The world would become overpopulated and there would be no room for the new generation. Without evil and suffering there would…

bases of Hemingway’s philosophy in this story are existentialism, a philosophical system originated in the 19th century by Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche and given full play in the post WWI years by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and nihilism, a related philosophical system popularized primarily by Nietzsche. Existentialism derives from the belief that existence is inherently meaningless and that individuals are solely responsible for giving meaning to their…

Dustin Wonch P.4 Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground is one of the most influential pieces of fiction in Western European history. In Notes from Underground, there is a Underground Man that mentions a fake place called the Crystal Palace where “every possible question will vanish in the twinkling of an eye, simply because every…

The famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky once noted,“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.” This quote best exemplifies the ideology that enabled King Leopold the Second to exploit and destroy…

It answers to the problem of evil, which is the problem of whether or not such a God could logically coexist with evil. This argument both positively states that evil exists in the world, and normatively states that if God existed there would be no evil, therefore God does not exist. As mentioned previously, it deals with the concept of a “three-O” God; which is to say a God who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. Omnipotence means here that God has the ability to do anything that is…

An Analysis of Intellectualism in Crime and Punishment On December 22, 1849, at eight A.M., Fyodor Dostoyevsky was roughly tied to a wooden stake and blindfolded (Townsend). An opponent of tsarist autocracy and serfdom, the young writer had joined a progressive group known as the Petrashevsky Circle. He was soon arrested for subversive political activity against Tsar Nicholas I and condemned to death. As members of the firing squad raised their guns, a courier arrived and revealed the…

The Confluence of European Ideology in Franz Kafka’s Fiction Abstract: Franz Kafka one of the major German language novelist and short story writer was born on July 3, 1883 at Prague. His posthumous works brought him fame not only in Germany, but in Europe as well. By 1946 Kafka’s works had a great effect abroad, and especially in translation. Apart from Max Brod who was the first commentator and publisher of the first Franz Kafka biography, we have Edwin and Willa Muir, principle English…