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Did Nietzsche and Dostoevsky meet?
The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky happened on the verge of nihilism.
Did Dostoevsky inspire Nietzsche?
It remains unlikely that Dostoyevsky read Nietzsche, even though Dostoyevsky had philosophical influences such as Kant, Hegel, and Solovyov amongst others.
Was Fyodor Dostoevsky religious?
After 1845, Dostoevsky drifted somewhat from his devout Orthodox practices as he became involved with a political and cultural group of rebels called the Pet- rashevsky Circle. However, he appeared to retain a special devotion to Christ throughout his life.
What can we learn from Nietzsche and Dostoevsky?
In what follows, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky are our guides through the fractured landscape of modern philosophy, for they begin their philosophic wanderings with the foundational questions plaguing man as he strives for understanding, namely the existence of the good and God and evil and the Devil.
Is the Brothers Karamazov a response to Nietzsche?
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky were contemporaries, and The Brothers Karamazov was published in a series between 1879 and 1880, before many of Nietzsche’s mature works were published. I want to be clear that the novel is a response to Nietzscheanism, not necessarily to the writings of Nietzsche himself. ↩︎
What does Nietzsche say about Dostoevsky in Twilight of the idols?
In the Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche writes, “Dostoevsky, who, incidentally, was the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn; he belonds to the happiest windfalls of my life…” [1]. Notes are arranged in response to the questions stated above in reference to the chapter “The Problem of Evil” in Reading for Philosophical Inquiry .
What is Dostoevsky’s most important insight into human nature?
This question shapes all of Dostoevsky’s thought and writing. And perhaps his most important insight is that humanity today is faced with a great choice: between the God-man (Christ) and the Man-God (most visible in Nietzsche’s Übermensch or Overman).