Crime and Punishment
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Main Ideas
- Struggle with one's conscience and the search for redemption
- Analysis of morality and ethics, questions of good and evil
- Critique of the idealization of a 'higher purpose' justifying crime
- Idea of social justice and critique of social inequalities
- Reflections on free will and predestination
- Search for truth through suffering and trials
- Issues of law and order, the influence of society on the individual
- Philosophy of crime and punishment, the interconnection of the inner and outer world of a person
Date of publication: 22 May 2024
Last updated: 9 July 2024
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Genre: Classical literature