Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler dive into the most celebrated and philosophically rich scenes in Dostoevsky's masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov." Alyosha gets in the middle of a rock-fight, Ivan Karamazov makes a devastating moral case against God, and the Grand Inquisitor convicts Jesus Christ of heresy against the church. (Note: this segment is the second of an upcoming five episode VBW miniseries on The Brothers Karamazov – more info on that to come very soon!) Plus one of us has a milestone birthday...
[Special note from Peez: Stick around after the closing music to hear VBWs most frequent guests Paul Bloom and Yoel Inbar talk to David about Tamler behind his back.]
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Links:
- The Brothers Karamazov - Wikipedia
- The Grand Inquisitor - Wikipedia
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) [amazon.com affiliate link] — This is the edition we used for this episode (and our upcoming 5-part series).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:30.9 | I do attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:39.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:43.3 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:46.6 | Good man. |
| 0:50.9 | Placing teeth lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:54.8 | I do attention to that man. |
| 1:00.1 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.9 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:08.9 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. |
| 1:13.8 | My name is Dave Pizarro from Cornell University. |
| 1:16.5 | Tamler, the great philosopher in manual Kant. |
| 1:20.2 | Didn't write his critiques until his 50s. |
| 1:24.3 | Today, my friend, August 20th of the year of our Lord 2020, you turn 50. |
| 1:29.7 | What philosophy do we have in store for the next decade? |
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