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Dostoyevsky: 'Everything is Permitted'

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"If God does not exist, everything is permitted." Who said a version of this?

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Usually attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, particularly through his character Ivan Karamazov.

Explanation

This summarizes the moral argument: without a transcendent lawgiver, there is no objective moral grounding.

Source or basis: Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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