Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov VS Nietzsche's Ubermensch

This video explores Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov presented in Crime and Punishment and Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch.

Raskolnikov’s pride separates him from society, he sees himself as a sort of “higher man”, indeed an ubermensch, a person who is extraordinary and thus above all moral rules that govern the rest of humanity, and so he cannot relate to anyone of the ordinary people "the herd", who must live in obedience and do not have the right to overstep the law.

Although it is almost sure that Dostoevsky, who died in 1881, had never even heard the name of Nietzsche. Nietzsche on the other hand, not only knew some of Dostoevsky’s principal works, but actually acknowledged that he regarded him as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn.

Nietzsche and Dostoevsky together both had strikingly similar themes, both were haunted by central questions surrounding the human existence, especially ones concerning God. They were both keen questioners and doubters. Both were “underworld minds” unable to come to terms either with other people or with the conditions they saw around them and both of them desperately wanted to create truth.

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
1:57 Nietzsche’s Ubermensch
4:02 Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov
7:00 Conclusion Nietzsche and Dostoevsky

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Sources used:

Lavrin, J. (1969). A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. The Russian Review, 28(2), 160-170.

Evlampiev (2002) Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: Toward a New Metaphysics of Man, Russian Studies in Philosophy, 41:3, 7-32

Jackson, R. (1982). Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Counterpoint. The Comparatist, 6, 24-34.

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