Darwin and Dostoyevsky: twins. [PDF]
The Russian poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky published an insightful treatise on human nature in his novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in 1880. His account of humanity may offer as much insight into human nature for scientists as Darwin's The Descent of Man.
Kováč L.
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The romantic paradigm of realist Dostoyevsky [PDF]
The article is devoted to the inheritance of the traditions of romanticism in the creative activity of young F. M. Dostoyevsky. The article dwells upon the certain points of integration and the typological interrelation of the artistic views of F.
Lipich, T. I., Lipich, V. V.
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth-Century China. [PDF]
Abstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Hong Z, Chen Y.
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Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity. [PDF]
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms ...
Voinea C, Mann SP, Savulescu J, Earp BD.
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Dostoyevsky in the consultation: the burden of freedom. [PDF]
‘I just don’t know. You’re the doctor’, she replies, after we have discussed the pros and cons of undergoing a knee replacement. Of course I know I’m the doctor. But that won’t get you out of making the decision, dear. ‘ Well, ’ I start sympathetically, ‘ you have to weigh up the benefits of curing the pain you have had in your knee for years, versus ...
Madlom Z.
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Potential risks of atracting direct foreign investments to the formation of regional clusters [PDF]
This paper discussesthe role ofdirectforeign investmentsin the processes of regionalclusters’ creation. The new type of clusters was identified - clusters that are created bytransnational corporations (TNCs)invitedinto the territory.The authors ...
Galina Dmitrievna Boush +2 more
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About Musical Instruments of Egor Efimov in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Novel Netochka Nezvanova [PDF]
The article is devoted to an attempt to study the musical instruments belonging to Egor Efimov: the clarinet, which by its nature is close to the hero, and the violin as the image of death in the story.
Daria A. Troshkova
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From Mordasov to Dukhanovo and back: toponymic space of the of Dostoyevsky’s novel «Uncle’s dream» [PDF]
The role of place names in Dostoevsky’s literary texts is never reduced to a nominative function, which consists in the designation of the place of action of the work.
Skuridina Svetlana A.
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Gnostic Myth About Salvator Salvatis and Its Elements in F.M. Dostoyevsky's Novel "The Idiot" [PDF]
In the article the structure of the soteriological myth about Salvator salvatus (the saved Saviour), based on material of the early Christian text “The Hymn of the Pearl” from the “Acts of Thomas” is presented; it is the key to understanding of a number ...
Ekaterina V. Moskvina
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