Dostoyevsky: Philosopher of freedom

Gary Saul Morson. The New Criterion

Thursday, January 21, 2021

For Dostoevsky. . . freedom, responsibility, and the potential for surprise define the human essence. That essence makes possible everything of value. The human soul is “so little known, so obscure to science, and so mysterious, that there are not and cannot be either physicians or final judges,” only unfinalizable people under the God who made them free.

 

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