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"The Idiot" is a novel written by the Russian writer Dostoevsky in the 19th century. He began writing in the autumn of 1867 and published it in 1868. "The Idiot" provides a broad depiction of the Russian upper class after the serfdom reform, involving complex psychological and moral issues. This novel expresses that the world cannot be quantified rationally, and is even beyond human imagination. What is inexplicable and unachievable by humans does not require thinking, and those who think about it and practice it are "idiots". This should be a perfect irony of the belief advocated by many Enlightenment thinkers that "man's logical calculations must conform to the laws of nature, and human calculations are equal to heaven's calculations." This kind of logic that overly believes that the world can be calculated and excludes all contradictions and willful movements is actually the arrogance of human beings.
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