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The Problem of Evil, Dystopia, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Brothers Karamazov' | Prof. Stephen Meredith

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How Does Dostoevsky Answer Ivan's Tiradade?

Ivan asks Elioia, would you agree to be the architect of a world founding on the suffering of that one child? Dostoevsky never answers Ivan in kind with another rhetorical onslaught, say, from Father Zosima or Elioia. I think he does answer Ivan in a way though, and that is through the characters and their actions.

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