SLAVIC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Problem Gambling, Political Correctness
16 Mar 2018
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"the regeneration of my convictions" - the way he had previously viewed the world was too simplistic/na ve. Witnessed people that enjoyed torturing children, guards that enjoyed torturing prisoners, people who enjoyed the sheer power of domination. The value of privacy (having something of your own) For 4 years he was not alone once (in prison) First-hand experience of the common people through his years in prison - the intellectuals write about the common people but don"t really know them at all. Defining faith as the search for faith (a quest governed by a respect for meaning) Faith is not a certainty but a struggle. After prison, he marries an older woman with a son. Marred from the beginning by his first epileptic seizure on their honeymoon. Descriptions are similar to descriptions of capital punishment. Dostoevsky"s book about the prison camp does not get published because it is not horrifying enough to deter people from committing crime.
