Sensei's style of reasoning is primarily inductive, in contrast with that of other characters in Sōseki's novel, and the present article argues that Sensei's style of reasoning is a primary cause of his suicide. Sōseki's novel, too, contains a confession, namely Sensei's testament, in which Sensei relates how he arrived at his belief that humanity is fundamentally selfish.

This omission prepares the way for the underground man's rejection of Liza at the climax of the second part of the novel. The underground man's argument may, as this article shows, be analyzed using logical truth tables to demonstrate that, however thorough the underground man's argument may appear, it does not consider the counterexample of selfless altruism. The confession of the underground man, the protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel, includes an argument against the Chernyshevskian doctrine of rational egoism.

Compared to Redshirt, she's far and away the superior person.Adapting a term coined by Ian Hacking, this article analyzes certain of the styles of reasoning that appear in two novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Zapiski iz podpol'ya ( Notes from Underground, 1864) and Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro (1914). She would have been deeply impressed by it. Kiyo never laughed at me for saying anything like what I said to Redshirt. If people are going to get laughed at for being simpleminded and sincere, there's no hope.

Wouldn't their students, and the world at large, be better off that way? Redshirt had laughed at me for being simpleminded. The schools might as well just go ahead and teach you how to tell lies, how to mistrust everybody, and how to take advantage of people. If that's the way it is, it would be better if they didn't have those ethics classes in elementary school and middle school where the teacher is always telling you to be honest and not lie. And then on those rare occasions when they encounter somebody who's honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he's nothing but a kid, a Botchan. They seem to think that if you don't, you'll never get anywhere in the world. “Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad.

Sōseki's kokoro