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Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Dostoesti's the Lady With the Camellias

Nastasia asks the group as a kind of parlor game to tell the most evil thing they've ever done in their life. Ferdishanko tells his story about how he knew someone who was madly in love with this girl. He went ahead and got her flowers himself so that way his friend can't do it. The fact that he's doing it for no reason is important, says Dostoesti.

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