Speaking of Dostoevsky, the "abstract system" that claims to have an exact answer for "everything in this world" is science. What abstract systems that create the illusion of knowledge were you referring to? — David Mo
My question remains: How can you enjoy with the repulsive passages of a great writer?
Speaking of Dostoevsky, the "abstract system" that claims to have an exact answer for "everything in this world" is science.
Interesting that the ‘systems and abstract deductions’ is what he refers to as science. Science could just as easily be ‘the evidence of his senses’, depending on how you approach it. — Possibility
In Notes from Underground the main character - who is not Dostoyevsky, it is kind of a crazy existentialist — BitconnectCarlos
This is the usual myth about Dostoevsky propagated by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin -a Soviet disident critic- and himself. In reality Dostoevsky declares himself to be careful in arranging the things in his novels in order to put a voice above all other: Jesus Crhist's voice, of course.He's able to flush out different ideologies/viewpoints through certain characters in a thoroughly honest sense. — BitconnectCarlos
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