Fyodor Dostoevski (Ethics (Ready Reference series))

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Inherent in Dostoevski’s literary canon is the primacy of the freedom of the individual. He argued in The Double and other works that the problems of society were caused by the absence of freedom; humankind had been “overcome” by the impact of human institutions—the church, the state, and economic structures—and by the assumed beliefs in God and in economic and social values. Dostoevski advanced a radical philosophy in which he condemned encumbrances to freedom. He maintained that the so-called “laws of nature” did not exist; sustaining a...

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