THE DIALECTICIAN OF FREEDOM AND LOVE IN 'CRIME AND PUNISHMENT' BY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

• Authors: Cieslik L
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article contains reflection on the one of the greatest novels written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 'Crime and Punishment'. The autor of this article is trying to show that the difference between 'Crime and Punishment' and other books written by the Russian novelist concentrates on two crucial problems in Dostoyevsky's prose: the phenomenon of love and freedom. The main themes of the novel are explained in philosophical and theological categories. The autor of this article sets a thesis that for Dostoyevsky truth and real freedom are possible to be achieved only due to love. This phenomenon is described and interpreted by the author as an ontological, moral, and epistemological category. Human being is defined by freedom, but in fact, love is perfect form of freedom. Dostoyevsky in his writing shows how destructive is the desire of unlimited and indefinite freedom. The article depicts also fundamental principles of Dostoyevsky's religious ethics focusing on the personalistic philosophy as the main feature of his thought. The other problem raised by the author is the choice between rational and emotiomal approach to life, understood as a difterent ways of existing and gaining knowledge about world, values and other people.

Keywords

EN

DOSTOYEVSKY FYODOR - LOVE & FREEDOM; LIFE - RATIONAL & EMOTIONAL APPROACH; RELIGIOUS ETHICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 341-362
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cieslik L

• L. Cieslik, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Rosji i Europy Wschodniej, al. Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05731