Concept
Fathers and Sons (novel)
Overview
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; pre-1918 spelling Отцы и дѣти), literally Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co on 23 February 1862. It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.
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If irremediable differences arise between fathers and sons, the father may want to renounce his son, or the son may indict his father for imbecility: such violent separations only take place when the family are 'a bad lot'; if only one of the two parties is bad, the differences do not grow to so great a height. But here arises a difficulty. Although in any other state a son who is disinherited does not cease to be a…
Plato, Laws
Opens on Fathers and Sons; names Fathers and Sons.
The first expansions of the human heart were the effects of a novel situation, which united husbands and wives, fathers and children, under one roof. The habit of living together soon gave rise to the finest feelings known to humanity, conjugal love and paternal affection. Every family became a little society, the more united because liberty--and reciprocal attachment were the only bonds of its union. The sexes…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
Close in meaning to Fathers and Sons; the term itself is not named.
_Faith Saves._—Virtue gives happiness and a state of blessedness only to those who have a strong faith in their virtue:—not, however, to the more refined souls whose virtue consists of a profound distrust of themselves and of all virtue. After all, therefore, it is "faith that saves" here also!—and be it well observed, _not_ virtue! _The Ideal and the Material._—You have a noble ideal before your eyes: but are you…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom
States what Fathers and Sons is; names Fathers and Sons.
Philosophers who discussed Fathers and Sons (novel)
Related ideas
- Gustave Flaubert
- Ivan Turgenev
- Moscow
- Pakistan
- Novel
- Divine Comedy
- Revolutionary
- Dante Alighieri
- Henry James
- Vladimir Bazarov
Place in the tradition
Part of Nihilism.