File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 137


From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Dostoevsky
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:09:13 -0500



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From: BRIAN M. STANSBERRY <BMS4880-AT-tntech.edu>
To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 6:30 AM
Subject: Dostoevsky


>I just read _Notes From the Underground_(sometimes translated as _Letters
>>From the Underworld_), and I noticed numerous parallels to Nietzsche,
>especially the concepts of suffering.  Does anyone know if Nietzsche had
>ever read this, or anything else by Dostoevsky?
>
>- Brian S.


The only parallel I see between the two in regards to their view of
suffering is that neither subscribes to the late, decadent
Christian/Democratic yearning to abolish suffering itself. For Dostoevsky,
suffering is a case of "nearer my God to thee", the protaganists who suffer,
do so in an essentially will-less martyrdom manner. For Nietzsche, on the
other hand, "suffering ennobles". Through suffering, ones will-to-power is
hardened and steeled.

A potent parallel between Goethe, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche is that, as
oppossed to Christian/Democratic (Darwinist/Marxist) ideologists, none of
them had the slightest desire to "improve mankind".



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