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- Title
Dostoyevsky, the Dualistic Heresy, and Religious Manipulation.
- Authors
Lazarova, Erika
- Abstract
The article is focused on the eternal moral antinomy \"God-Devil\", interpreted in the light of the Dualist Haeresy. In his novel \"Brothers Karamazov\" F. Dostoevsky uncover the nature of cruelty as moral perversity. The Great Inqusitor is not only an antagonist of Christ love, but also a genial religious manipulator. The diabolic character of Evil is so dangerous for the common people, because they didn't understand man's free will as the greatest human weal and ethical responsibility. It is easy to be a wicked, arrogant, moral perverse person and count for God's grace. The problem is how to become a real moral person and act like an ethical subject, who has choosen the way of true Christian love in the dualistic universe.
- Subjects
DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor, 1821-1881; MANIPULATIVE behavior; FREE will &; determinism -- Religious aspects; SUFFERING in children; ETHICS; ONTOLOGY; LOVE of God
- Publication
Philosophical Alternatives Journal / Filosofski Alternativi, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 3, p47
- ISSN
0861-7899
- Publication type
Article