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Titill: 
  • For we know not what we do. Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Towards forgiveness
Námsstig: 
  • Meistara
Útdráttur: 
  • Útdráttur er á ensku

    This thesis is centred on “The Grand Inquisitor”, a classic chapter from The Brothers Karamazov. It combines the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche with the existential insights of Fyodor Dostoevsky, for the purpose of outlining an existential concept of forgiveness. I define forgiveness as the emancipation of consciousness from the spirit of resentment and revenge.
    I outline the problems of freedom, ideology and responsibility as the Grand Inquisitor portrays them, and analyse these problems in accordance with interconnected themes addressed in Nietzsche’s writings, drawing mainly from Human all too Human, Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, Ecce Homo and Twilight of the Idols. I employ Nietzsche's perspectivism for the purpose of unveiling the psychological drives and motives that lurk behind the Inquisitor’s elitist argument, and examine the existential meaning of these drives and motives in light of Nietzsche's ‘Error of Imaginary Causes’, the ‘Error of Free Will’ and his concept of ‘Resentment’, drawing a comparison between the Inquisitor and Nietzsche’s ‘ascetic priest’.
    In conclusion I outline the psychological and existential meaning of Nietzsche's ‘Eternal Return’ and ‘Amor fati’, and apply that meaning to the exhortations of the Inquisitor's antitype, the elder Zozima, and thereby describe a mode of consciousness that is free from resentment and revenge—a perspective of forgiveness.

Samþykkt: 
  • 5.5.2014
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/17738


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