Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Dostoevsky's Apocalypse of the Soviet Union
Dostoevsky is lamenting the loss of sort of the russian soul in this religious soul. He's being replaced by kind of cold rationality and he's also making a political commentary on his contemporaries. The idea uniting heart and soul to heart and soul exists no more all is loose soft limp we are all of us limp.
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