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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Dostoevsky's Speech Cursing the World

The paradox of Dostoevsky's freedom is that on the one sense you're doing what you want to do all the time but in other sense you're also sort of a slave to your passions. These characters are just always sort of pursuing their most base immediate desire all the time and not having that kind of higher order freedom. He says humans in order to be human have to have something of their own they can't just live in this kind of pure clean perfect world where they're perfectly happy.

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