Post 1 — Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov spends the opening chapters building an intellectual justification for murder — the idea that certain people are "extraordinary" and above conventional morality. What's interesting is how fast his body betrays that theory before his mind does: he's sick, feverish, and half-delirious almost immediately after the act, long before any guilt is consciously processed.

Curious how others read this — do you think Dostoevsky is arguing that morality is something felt in the body before it's reasoned through?