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Fyodor Dostoevsky foresaw how God would die
Not by closing the gaps in our knowledge of heaven and earth—in which God is increasingly found to have nothing to do—but via the progress of neuroscience, in which spirit is progressively vanquished from the skull. On page 41 of Steven Pinker’s … Continue reading
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Tagged atheim, atheist, existentialism, free will, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Genesis, ghosts, God, Sam Harris, steven pinker, the death of god, the soul
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Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoevsky
From Notes from Underground : “I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; niether a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, literature, notes from underground, philosophy, psychology, Russia
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Notes from Underground
Who will speak from the insistent vantage of the ontological mystery? Against the best efforts of our contemporary advocates of scientism, positivism, and reductionism, below is a succinct explanation for why religion, poetry, Dostoevsky’s “underground man,” and Camus’s “Sisyphian hero” cannot just cede the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Camus, Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, philosophy, poetry, Politics, reductionism, religion, science, the ontological mystery
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This Hans Holbein Painting of Christ after Crucifixion Sparked Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Imagination
While living in Bern, Germany, Fyodor Dostoevsky was mesmerized by the Hans Holbein painting below. Dostoevsky saw what the painting depicted as the pivot on which faith or unbelief must rest. One must either believe that God raised Jesus’s body from … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Dostoevsky, faith, Fyodor Dostoevsky, hans holbein, Jesus, nature, nihilism, religion, resurrection, science
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Quote of the Day
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this arresting passage in his short story, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”: [P]eople appeared who began devising ways of bringing men together again, so that each individual, without ceasing to prize himself above all others, might not … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hegel, life, literature, psychology, Socialism, totalitarianism, utopia, utopianism, war
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“I Am the Great Oz!”: Image of Vladimir Lenin Doing a Wizard of Oz Head-Float Over Tractor and People
The Cult of Personality, in which a “Great Man” hovers larger than life over the masses and seems to embody their utopian aspirations. Long before Lenin, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this arresting passage (from his short story “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”): [P]eople appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, Communism, cults, Fyodor Dostoevsky, liberalism, literature, rush limbaugh, Russia, Santi Tafarella, Soviet Union, totalitarianism, war
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Prometheus Unbound 