The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 164: Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" on Perfection (Part One)

May 15, 2017 · 57 min · 54.8 MB

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On Fyodor Dostoyevsky's philosophical novel from 1869. Could a morally perfect person survive in the modern world? Is all this "modernity," which so efficiently computes our desires and provides mechanisms to fulfill them, actually suited to achieve human flourishing? Dostoyevsky's Russian existentialism says no!

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