... abilities/instincts; that is why Nietzsche believes the modern world is causing the human race to regress instead of making progress. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who satirizes modern society in his novel Notes from the Underground, also believes that human beings are deprived of their natural instincts in society. Dostoyevsky brings to light the notion that man has two parts to his life: the rational ... but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, the whole life including reason and all the impulses" (Notes, 19). He ...

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