Professional paper

Dostoevsky’s Ethical Controversy

Željko Senković orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-6130 ; Faculty of Philosophy, University J. J. Strossmayer of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia.

Abstract

The article considers some basic issues appearing in Dostoevsky’s work which show the aporetical element. Thus Dostoevsky, the seeker of sense, speaks of love (at least) from two perspectives. Love is the key element of living according to the Word of Christ, but it is simultaneously denounced as an egotistic impetus of subordination and tyranny of the Other. The revealer of the crises of the soul and spirit investigated the existential pathos and showed through the controversies that to be man and to be free is one and the same thing. An argument is provided against the trivial theses from Golosovker’s study ‘Dostoevsky and Kant’, and all because of insisting on ‘considering crisis’ as an appropriate qualification of the great writer. Freud’s analysis of Dostoevsky is evaluated as an excessive exaggeration or repudiation of crucial moments. The biographical research has proven to be a valuable area which provides a broader view.

Keywords

Dostoevsky; crisis; love; God; Kant

Hrčak ID:

52096

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/52096

Publication date:

6.5.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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