Subject to the Law of Reason while Belonging to the World of Sense: the Inevitable Randomness of Human Experience in "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Garden of Forking Paths"

• Ruth Karin Lévai ^[1]
  1. [1] Eötvös Loránd University

     Eötvös Loránd University

     Hungría

     
• Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, Vol. 18, Nº. 2-3, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Randomness), págs. 209-223
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Taking as its starting point the tension between the human condition as subject to the law of reason while belonging to the world of sense in establishing the categorical imperative as described by Kant, this article explores how belonging to the world of sense may be equated with randomness and the temporal as the presupposition for morality in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Borges's ‘The Garden of Forking Paths'. The article also discusses the two authors' views of time and eternity as expressed in their nonfiction.