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    | Dickens‚ Dostoevsky and Utilitarianism: | A Comparison | | Sarah Deyyain | 9/3/2011 | Dickens‚ Dostoevsky and Utilitarianism: A Comparison Utilitarianism is the principle that every action of man must be motivated for the greatest happiness for the greatest number. It is based on the idea that whatever is useful is good and the useful is what brings pleasure to man and avoids pain (Dimwiddy). However‚ the novelists Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoevsky firmly opposed this doctrine

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    mathematician‚ student of Socrates. Writer of the great work “The Republic”. He is the founder of the Academy in Athens‚ the first institution of higher learning. Plato laid the foundation of western philosophy. Second‚ is Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky is more or less modern writer. Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist‚ short storywriter‚ and essayist. He wrote a lot of books such as “Idiot”‚

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    – Fyodor Dostoevsky carefully constructs the central figures in Crime and Punishment as multifaceted and a product of two conflicting halves. This leaves the reader with the problem of having to decipher how we ought to understand these characters and what Dostoevsky is trying to say through the presentation of doubled characters. Does Dostoevsky force us to choose to identify Raskolnikov as either a genius or a louse and Sonya as a pious women or a defiled prostitute? Why does Dostoevsky allow Sonya

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    some critics have seen Dostoevsky’s plots as chaotic and disorganized  others have found them “Gothic” (perverse passion‚ intrigue‚ murder‚ suicide)  and aimed at cheap effects; Dostoevsky’s characters unnatural‚ schematic‚ and contrived. pessimism Dostoevsky develops his psychological dramas in the abstract‚ without a natural background. Multitude of minor characters and subplots‚ inserted anecdotes‚ philosophic dialogues‚ the narrator’s essayistic and other digressions is hardly "well structured."

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    pleasure and the prevention of pain.” ( Mill. Utilitarianism. 10). He does not acknowledge that pain and misery may actually bring about happiness‚ this is one of the major flaws in his principle. “… the enjoyment here consisted precisely in the hyperconsciousness

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    * Dostoevsky and Parricide: A Summary * I summarised our group’s discussion into bullet-points‚ so that it is much easier to skim-read and understand. Main points from the essay: Freud analysed Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karmazou” and categorised into 4 facets: 1) creative artists  least doubtful 2) neurotic  most readily assailable 3) moralist 4) sinner  - pg 179 para2 Dostoevsky’s complex personality is presented as being 1) quantitative and 2) qualitative

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    The novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky draws two impossible scenarios that together highlight the everyday reality of the potential conflicts between one’s own happiness and the happiness of others. First imagine a world that is a utopia except that it is built upon the suffering of a single child. Then imagine a person who is willing to sacrifice the rest of the world in order to secure his own well-being. The question‚ one we face on a daily basis whether we contemplate it or not‚ is how we experience

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    This essay aims to analyse the representation of heaven and hell‚ both in form and content within Feodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ and John Donne selected poems. We will see that the characters experience hellish nightmares‚ torment and feelings of longing in order to deliver the humanist message: we are all connected and that despite our perceptions or ideas of transcendence‚ it our place amongst others that restores our humanity. Those that place themselves in the part of a “superman”

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    The book Crime and Punishment and its author‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky‚ both came many years before their time. In the book‚ Dostoevsky clearly describes the medical disorders we now know today as schizophrenia‚ bipolar disorder‚ and dissociative identity disorder which is also known as multiple personality disorder. The book was first published in 1866‚ however‚ schizophrenia was first described officially in 1887 by Dr. Emile Kraepelin and not given the name “schizophrenia” until Eugene Bleuler coined

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    ethical theory. For a discussion of John Stuart Mill’s essay Utilitarianism (1861)‚ see Utilitarianism (book). The Utilitarianism series‚ part of the Politics series Utilitarian Thinkers[show] Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Peter Singer Forms[show] preference utilitarianism rule utilitarianism act utilitarianism Two-level utilitarianism Total utilitarianism Average utilitarianism Negative utilitarianism animal welfare Abolitionism (bioethics) Hedonism

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