“But if [akernel of wheat] dies, it produces many seeds” — the theme of death, immortality and resurrectionin Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Karamazov Brothers The article is devoted to the theme of death in the last novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Karamazov Brothers. For most characters of this novel death is not aloss of life, but paradoxically, gaining anew form of existence. In this novel revival is accomplished not only through physical death of the body, but also through the experience of profound spiritual transformation. This mystery of transformation, however, is not possible for those who succumbed to evil and during their lifetime were dead inside.
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„Если пшеничное зерно […] умрет, то принесет много плода” — тема смерти, бессмертия и воскресения в Братьях Карамазовых Федора Достоевского Статья посвящена теме смерти в последнем романе Федора Достоевского Братья Карамазoвы. Для большинства героев произведения смерть является не потерей жизни, а, что парадоксально, достижением новой формы существования. Путем к возрождению является в романе не только смерть тела, но и глубокая духовная трансформация. Мистерия преобразования невозможна однако для тех, кто при жизни предался злу и стал внутренне мертвым.
Jerzy Stempowski and Lev Shestov - existentialism imbued with eastern melancholy. A short history of a friendship: The main objective of this article is to present the friendship between Jerzy Stempowski - Polish writer, essayist and Lev Shestov - Russian writer and philosopher. The article consist of three parts an and short conclusion. In the first part I focus on Stempowski’s predilections for Eastern Europe, and I also explore Stempowski’s complicated, though clearly evident, relation with existentialism. It is in this context that I show both Stempowski’s close affinity with Shestov philosophy, and his evident antipathy to French existentialism. In the second part I attempt to answer the following question: why did Stempowski have such a strong aversion to Albert Camus’ work. In this part of my essay I briefly refer to a Serbian writer and dissident - Mihajlo Mihajlov. In the third part I explore Stempowski’s friendship with Shestov and I also sketch the ideological horizon they both shared. Moreover, I mention Shestov’s presentations at the philosophical conferences in Kraków and Berlin as well as his meeting with Edmund Husserl in Amsterdam. In the short conclusion to my article I suggest that Stempowski’s existentialism is an individual, original project even if his existentialism draws upon most of the major themes in philosophical treatises and literature of existentialism. His “existential project” is based on: 1. reason which rationally orders reality, 2. sympathy towards antirational and prophetic philosophy of Russian thinkers which he analyses from the positions of a professed atheist and 3. deeply-rooted humanistic values.
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