Abstract
What does it mean to understand a murderer? Might it be legitimate to refuse to even try? And is such a refusal compatible with enduring love? I examine Sonia's reaction to Raskolnikov's confession in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . On the one hand, not only does she not abandon him, she devotes the rest of her life to him; on the other hand, she rejects not only his attempted justifications, but even the possibility of justification itself. This is a special kind of moral experience that strikes at many assumptions of analytic moral philosophy and its reliance on thought experiments.
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