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After him, his son Lev ruled in Viitovtsi — Another son, Mykhailo the writer's father , studied at the Podolsk seminary, which was then founded in Shargorod. From there, as one of the best students, he was sent to study at the Medical and Surgical Academy in Moscow after training he became one of the best doctors at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor. Before the war of he signed in Ukrainian — "Mykhailo" and only during the war, when he worked as a military doctor, he began to sign in Russian — "Mikhail". From there he was assigned to a Moscow hospital, where he served as military doctor, and in , he was appointed a senior physician. In he married Maria Nechayeva. The following year, he took up a post at the Mariinsky Hospital for the poor. In , when his two sons, Mikhail and Fyodor, were eight and seven respectively, he was promoted to collegiate assessor, a position which raised his legal status to that of the nobility and enabled him to acquire a small estate in Darovoye, a town about km miles from Moscow, where the family usually spent the summers. God And Christianity In The Idiot And The Brothers Karamazov
Now he undertook to vindicate its Christian alternative. Why do so in a novel rather than a treatise? It was a philosophical instrument capable of demonstrating truths that treatises could only assert. The Soviets, Gld course, regarded religion, and especially Christianity, as their main enemy, and right from the start tried to wipe it out in any way they could.
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But their understanding of faith never ceased to be primitive. Abstract thought and agonized choice were in principle no different from simple reflexes, like the narrowing of pupils in bright light. And yet I am sorry to lose God. Society protects itself with laws, but those laws are based solely on their practical utility.
A student of natural science, he understands the implications of a worldview that allows for nothing but morally neutral laws of nature. It is neither moral nor immoral that a dropped coin accelerates at 9. Torn apart by this contradiction, he withdraws from others. With a dizzying sequence of loopholes, he avoids committing himself to any opinion. No matter what he seems to be saying, he can claim that he was less than serious. Believing in nothing, Fyodor Pavlovich relishes clever mockery of anything anyone else might hold sacred.
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Laughing at notions of personal dignity, he loves to play the buffoon and humiliate himself in public to show his perfect contempt for the regard of others. The story may have been exaggerated, yet it must have been something like the truth.
He is even angrier that his father has been using his ill-gotten wealth to lure Grushenka, a woman of dubious repute with whom Dmitri has become erotically obsessed. Dmitri arrives late, and so Fyodor Pavlovich has an opportunity to play the fool and provoke Miusov into inappropriate behavior. According to Miusov, Ivan claimed that since there is no law of nature making people care for others, if they do care it is only because they have believed in something beyond those laws, such as immortality.
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But what if there is no possibility of being caught? Moral law governs the universe as surely as natural law. He observes that Ivan is either blessed in believing that all is permitted, or else most unhappy.
But the martyr likes sometimes to divert himself with his despair, as it were driven to it by despair itself. That question you have not answered, and it is your great grief, for it clamors for an answer. That is, if Ivan cannot find faith, he will never become a contented atheist, but will keep on seeking faith.
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