A MAN IS FREE AS HE IS THE IMAGE OF GODLY FREEDOM. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY’S FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT FREEDOM
Abstract
A MAN IS FREE AS HE IS THE IMAGE OF GODLY FREEDOM.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY’S FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT
FREEDOM.
The article presents Fyodor Dostoevsky’s considerations of freedom
based on both The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot. The writer shows,
that dealing with own freedom is one of the greatest tasks in human life
and man's future fate depends wholly on how he copes with this task.
Freedom is a fundamental concept in a philosophical anthropology of
the Russian novelist. According to his grasp of the problem of evil this is
a man, who appears the source of all misery, which he brings upon
himself, among which not atheism but false understanding of God is the
greatest one.