From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com> Subject: Re: Dostoevsky Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:09:13 -0500 -----Original Message----- 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". --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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