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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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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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0:00.0	The partial examin' life relies on your support to find out how to help in ways that are cheap
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0:05.6	Please visit partialexaminalife.com slash support.
0:17.0	You're listening to the partial examin' life, a podcast by some guys, where at one point
0:20.6	said I'm doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.
0:23.1	A question for episode 164 is something like, what is perfect virtue and re-read?
0:28.7	The fjord or Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot, published serially in 1868 and 69.
0:34.0	To get the reading and more information, please check out partialexaminalife.com.
0:37.8	This is Mark Linton-Meyer living under the shadow of the apocalypse in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:41.5	This is Wes Allone in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:44.4	This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.
0:46.8	And this is Corey Moller, ruining everyone's lives with my 90s loves in Cornland, Oregon.
0:52.5	Ah, nice.
0:54.3	Yeah, well done.
0:55.4	Welcome, Corey.
0:56.2	Well, you've signed up the book.
0:58.2	Yeah.
0:59.2	That's a synopsis.
1:01.2	Why people probably know Corey from his existential comics?
1:05.0	Yes, I'm better known as that one dude who makes existential comics.
1:08.6	Or who did?
1:10.1	Who did.
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