nftu 5th post juan pino

In this last section of Notes from the Underground I have perhaps read the most interesting part yet. Dostoyevski has begun to speak of the advantages that a man may or may not have. He makes references to peace, honor, reason and prosperity, claiming that all of them are in fact advantages a man may have. He then goes on a page and a half explanation as to the one advantage that trumps all: instinct. Dostoyevski never directly addresses what he is trying to say, but I have come to the conclusion that he does in fact mean instinct as he describes this final overpowering advantage as being determined by the laws of nature and what humans truly want. The root of what humans want, of what is advantageous to man, stems from our innate instincts. At times, we act upon logic, but more often than not I agree with Dostoyevski that instinct is the strongest of these advantages.