A Study of Guilt in the Religious Thought of L.Wittgenstein

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  • ウィトゲンシュタインにおける罪悪感の問題 : ドストエフスキーとの関係を手がかりに
  • ウィトゲンシュタイン ニ オケル ザイアクカン ノ モンダイ : ドストエフスキー ト ノ カンケイ オ テガカリ ニ

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Dostoevsky plays an important role in L. Wittgenstein’s religious understanding. It is often after experiencing suffering and guilt that Dostoevsky’s characters awake to the significance of religion and change their ways. A typical example is Dmitri, one of the protagonists of The Brothers Karamazov. Racked with guilt, Dmitri praises God and seeks purification through suffering. In him one can discern an acute sense of his own wickedness coupled with an awareness of the element of nobility within him, and a consequent desperate struggle to change in the quest for a happier life. Underlying all this is the fiery Dmitri’s ardor. Wittgenstein too was racked with guilt and sought to change his life. What drew him to Dostoevsky was the conception of faith as an ardent desire to overcome guilt; that conception was at the heart of Wittgenstein’s religious understanding.

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