Notes from the Underground Part 1

Continued from here & here.

Part 1 falls into an introduction, three main sections and a conclusion.

(i) The short introduction propounds a number of riddles whose meanings will be further developed.

(1) Chapters two, three and four deal with suffering and the enjoyment of suffering;

(2) chapters five and six with intellectual and moral vacillation and with conscious “inertia”-inaction;

(3) chapters seven through nine with theories of reason and advantage;

(c) the last two chapters are a summary and a transition into Part 2.

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