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Dostoevsky’s accusation is that Jesus did not relieve human beings but increased freedom and therefore spiritual suffering.
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Dostoevsky
Jiang contrasts Dostoevsky with modern literature: Dostoevsky's psychology responds to external events and requires surrender to others, while modern literature promises self-discovery, self-mastery, and self-redemption.
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Jiang contrasts Dostoevsky with modern literature: Dostoevsky's psychology responds to external events and requires surrender to others, while modern literature promises self-discovery, self-mastery, and self-redemption.
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Dostoevsky is used as the counter-model: the heart is a deep ocean, psychology responds to the world, and salvation requires others and community rather than self-mastery.
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Jiang says Tolstoy and Dostoevsky create modern Russian civilization by trying to reconcile Russia's contradictions through novels.
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Dostoevsky's near execution and Siberian hard labor are presented as traumatic enlightenment that made him think deeply about the meaning of life.
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Dostoevsky is presented as anti-Enlightenment: reason does not save civilization because logic can justify mass killing; truth lies in the heart and in returning to Orthodox selfhood.
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"is okay thou didst not love them at all thou who didst come to give thy life for them instead of taking possession of..."
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"people to tell them that the more not exist that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can..."
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"going thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid..."
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"...radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discuss Dostoevsky. For Dostoevsky, the heart, it's a deep..."
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"...radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discussed Dostoevsky. Okay. For Dostoevsky, the heart, it's a..."
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"for their big life then the maiden might sacrifice herself to thank the mother goddess okay all right so now let's move on to..."
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"...what he felt... He felt his heart demanded of him. Theodore Dostoevsky comes from a low nobility. His father was a doctor. And as..."
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"...Sorry. The. Romantics. Are. Saying. No. That's. True. Okay. And. What. Dostoevsky. Is. Saying. Is. Telling. Us. That. Is. That. This. Is. Nonsense. Reason...."
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"...Much. A. Reaction. Against. Enlightenment. In. Europe. At. This. Time. Okay. Dostoevsky. Is. Also. Saying. Like. Toy. Story. Westernization. Of. Russia. Is. Only. Corrupting...."
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"...and our pride. And embracing God. Okay? This is something that Dostoevsky talks about in his book Crime and Punishment. So, in the book..."
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"...okay so this is uh the book the brothers by theodore dostoevsky he's talking about the problem left by jesus jesus comes to the..."
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"...revolutionary discussion becomes sort of like a national pastime in Russia. Dostoevsky, both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were sympathetic to revolutions. 1853 to 1856 is..."
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