The Dostoevsky's paradox

 

In a Godless world, without a future life - would it be then, that everything is permitted? 

(Dostoevsky)

Probably in this sentence is hinged the ruthless folly that abides the Dostoevsky's characters.
In Dostoevsky's books, every character always tries his limit, the limit where he can push his folly. He ruthlessly, desperately, tries the limit of this folly.

And above all, if a limit there is, then it is only a groundless abysm where you can be lost without limit.
The folly is particularly highlighted by the obsessive excess of exaggeration. Dostoevsky's characters are excessive in everything, every quality they may possess is never restrained.
This is the meaning of the paradox, we think. God is the limit, can be the limit on the basis of your free will, to the folly of the world dangerously shifting to a Godless world.
The world we are forcibly pushed to, these days. A Godless world for the vile mass, the mass that is neither hot neither cold.

Because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth (Revelation 3:16 )

For sure the Dostoevsky's paradox is trying to avoid the Revelation's paradox.

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