Analysis uncovers the complexity of murder and moral failure in Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, highlighting insights from Hobbes' Leviathan.
As for the first one, he committed a murder, which is nothing but a pre- planned crime. The fact that a premeditated crime is much more serious than a crime committed on the basis of false principles is confirmed by T. Hobbes himself (p.236), But another one immediately manifests itself the side of the crime, namely, the gradual realization that he was wrong.
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