If God does not exist, everything is permitted.", can be interpreted à la the condemnation to be free that Jean-Paul Sartre later invoked, despite Fyodor Dostovesky's Orthodox Christianity. — thewonder
Which suggests the antinomical state of men, that can only be surpassed through κένωσις (kénosis), i.e. men's polyphonic nature can only gain resolution through the Hypostatic union, considering then the individual-person distinction that can be observed in his short story Dream of a Ridiculous Man.But he who knows the mystery of the Cross and the Tomb, knows also the essential principles of all things.
Finally, he who penetrates yet further and finds himself initiated into the mystery of the Resurrection, apprehends the end for which God created all things from the beginning.
Gnostic Centuries; I, 66, P.G.
It is certain — I believe so that for everyone — that Dostoevsky's philosophy reaches its highest significance with his theological solution, suggested in his mature work and life. Considering this, I return: is it possible to consider dostoevskian philosophy apart from its dogmatism and theological presuppositions? — Bertoldo
To my understanding, there are debates upon the translation, but the quote effectively says something to that effect regardless. — thewonder
I am of the opinion that Sartre was right, man is "condemned to be free", and that a fundamental goal of Existentialism ought to be to figure out how to cope with what he identified as the human condition. Sartre, however, is wildly unpopular within kind of a lot of philosophical circles, usually relating to a set of rather unfortunate details of both his personal and political life, and, so, often find for it to be fairly difficult to even engage in conversations with kind of a lot of other philosophers about this. — thewonder
Dostoyevsky is never a propagandist. — BitconnectCarlos
Despite that Joseph Goebbels was Catholic and Adolf Hitler was an Anglican Protestant, thereby necessitating some form of Christianity within the Nazi Party, I would imagine that the general attitude towards Ethics within the Gestapo could generally be characterized by what both is and is mistaken for as "Nihilism" by Existentialists. — thewonder
I don't think there are any debates on the translation as such and I think the language is important. — Tom Storm
Certainly many people I knew in the 1980's-1990's would have laughed anyone out of the room for considering existentialism to be philosophy. — Tom Storm
It's the common person's notion of morality - that we need (typically a Christian) God as the foundation of what is good - or we will just go about killing and harming others. — Tom Storm
While that is a fairly common Christian assumption, I think that you have failed to take into consideration that Christianity was kind of the locus of ethical meaning up until around the onset of Modernity. — thewonder
without Christianity, humanity failed to create an ethic with which to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. You seem to think that this is evidently false, given the history of Christianity, which I don't think is quite so obvious. — thewonder
Christianity has never stopped human catastrophes that I am aware of and has sometimes lubricated them. — Tom Storm
Yeah all those rotten hospital systems and universities they set up. Along with all of those dreadful charitable organisations that went around indiscriminately helping people. — Wayfarer
Of course some Christian work has been quite wonderful too. But when the theists say that without God there will be blood on the streets, that presupposes no blood was ever spilt by churches and church run activities. — Tom Storm
What I am saying is that people have to cope with the loss of the Christian symbolic register. I am not saying that Christianity has transcendent virtues. I'm saying that it is no longer possible to believe in divine order to the universe and that people must both discover and create meaning otherwise. As I interpret Jean-Paul Sartre, or even Albert Camus, I think that the sentiment is quite similar. — thewonder
Do you think that it is possible to separate Dostoevsky's Philosophy from its very religious nature? — Bertoldo
We are in absolute accordance when it comes to it.I think Dostoyevsky is safely categorized as a Christian writer from the Orthodox theological tradition. — Tom Storm
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