Ep. 133: Everything Is Permitted
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ivan, the most brilliant and also the most tormented of the brothers in Dotoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov," saw something that few others could see: if there is no immortal soul and no God, then everything is permitted. It's something that Nietzsche realized as well, and it drove him mad. How did Dotoevsky avoid the same fate—and how can we? Spencer Klavan picks up these questions in the second installment of this series.
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| 0:00.0 | Socialism is not only the labor question or the question of the so-called fourth estate, |
| 0:07.6 | but first of all the question of atheism, the question of the modern embodiment of atheism, |
| 0:13.9 | the question of the tower of Babel built precisely without God not to go from earth to heaven, |
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| 1:32.8 | All right, that is a quote which I mentioned last week when I was giving you kind of the |
| 1:37.9 | preliminary. You might call it say the prerequisites for entering into this massive novel, |
| 1:42.5 | the Brothers' Caram Mass Off. That last week's episode was sort of about how to prepare yourself, |
| 1:50.3 | I think, for approaching this novel without letting it drive you insane. That's something that a lot |
| 1:55.9 | of people thought of, for there are no real fault of their own, I think, get driven mad by this |
| 2:01.6 | novel. Now I think we're kind of equipped to approach it. I want to take a few different angles on |
| 2:08.8 | it. I want to talk about it in a few different ways. The first one that I want to talk about is this |
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