Dostoyevsky keeps referring to these laws of nature as something
set in stone naturally. The way he describes these laws to me sounds more like
the norms of society than the laws of nature. Everything is the way it is
because society created it to be that way. Maybe he refers to them as laws of
nature because they are almost so concrete it seems like there is no way around
them. The way around them is Dostoyevsky’s whole point. He wants to define the indefinable
but it is hard to talk about things that don’t exist yet. In psychology I learned
that if there is not a word for a concept it is impossible to think about it. I
think that is why Dostoyevsky struggles so much; because he can’t find the
right way to express his thoughts about self-actualization because it didn’t exist
yet.
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