Part 1, Chapter 6
Raskolnikov overhears the student in the tavern propose the utilitarian calculation: kill the useless pawnbroker, do a thousand good deeds—the 'arithmetic' that crystallizes his idea.
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky satirizes the 1860s radical intelligentsia through Lebezyatnikov and Luzhin, showing how 'rational egoism' and utilitarian arithmetic underlie Raskolnikov's crime.
Part 5, Chapter 1
Lebezyatnikov as caricature of the progressive radical, parroting commune doctrine.
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