PREMIUM-Ep. 317: Character Philosophies in Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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To conclude our discussion of the novel, we turn to the philosophies of Dmitri and Ivan, plus the Biblical book of Job and our takeaways. Do we need some philosophy of transcendence to cope?
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| 0:14.5 | Hey, this is episode 317 Part 2. |
| 0:20.1 | Should we shift a little to Dmitry? |
| 0:22.8 | He takes up such a huge part of the text. |
| 0:26.4 | We barely said anything about him other than he has a weird combination of the two |
| 0:33.9 | horses of Plato's chariot that we must control, the repetitive and the spiritual. |
| 0:39.4 | I'd ask for more questions from the audience to follow up. |
| 0:43.9 | We could continue our Q&A. |
| 0:45.2 | And the one question that I got was, you know, where did his 3000 rubles actually come |
| 0:50.5 | from? |
| 0:51.5 | I took him, I don't want to bother to repeat his whole story and his conflict about |
| 0:55.8 | the money, but like I just was taking that his testimony was truth. |
| 1:01.0 | Like that there's no doubt that we as readers are supposed to say that yes, he's exemplifying |
| 1:06.4 | some complex psychology, some seemingly irrational, which is what makes it so hard for other people |
| 1:12.0 | to believe him, but that we are supposed to believe him. |
| 1:15.0 | So we know that his 3000 rubles came straight from Katerina, but he only spent half of it |
| 1:19.9 | and blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:21.8 | And not from murdering his father and taking the 3000 rubles, which is the point of issue. |
| 1:26.4 | Well, you've associated him with Thumas and spiritedness and pride. |
| 1:31.1 | I mean, but also he's driven by just like his father, his lust for Grushinka, right? |
| 1:36.8 | That he has his interactions with Katerina, the woman that he's be troved to are all |
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