Dobro jako kategoria etyczna i ontologiczna w twórczości Fiodora Dostojewskiego
The concept of the good as ethical and ontological category in Dostoyevsky’s oeuvre

Summary/Abstract: The question of the good and the evil in Dostoyevsky’s work has been repeatedly analysed andexamined from different research perspectives, often giving contrary results. Such rich and diversestudies of his writings is an interesting subject in itself. The academic work by Leo Zander and SergiuszHessen concentrates particularly on issues of the good from readings of Dostoyevsky. Bothscholars in their examination derived the concept of the good from the idea of God, according to theprinciple of “Good from God”, thereby establishing a direct dependence on religion and ethics.Ethics without religion, outside God, inside its own structure is becoming impossible and is morphinginto deadly ethics of willfulness. The emergence of the concept of the good from a divinebeing establishes a dependence on ethics from ontology, ontology precedes ethics. These studies arethe starting point for further reflections on the matter of independent ethics and even universalexplanations of Dostoyevsky’s creativeness which incorporates the possibility of exceeding moralrelativism.

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