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Empty Souls: Confession And Forgiveness In Hegel And Dostoevsky, Ryan Johnson
Empty Souls: Confession And Forgiveness In Hegel And Dostoevsky, Ryan Johnson
Sophia and Philosophia
“Towards the end of a sultry afternoon early in July a young man came out of his little room in Stolyarny Lane and turned and in the direction of Kameny Bridge in central St. Petersburg.”[1] Right then, this young man, a former law student named Rodion Raskolnikov, is caught in an agonizing conversation with himself over whether or not to commit the ultimate crime: to murder an innocent person. Exasperated, wondering what to do with such a weighty decision, he cried aloud, “that’s why I don’t act, because I am always talking. Or perhaps I talk so much just because …