Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so today we're going to be talking about the book The Brothers karamazov which means among other things we're going to be talking today about the faith of dovi Faith was a big part of how he lived his life where if you're someone that spent many years studying him you know reading the journals the letters the notes of dooski people often describe his view of Faith as a kind of existential tragic form of Christianity that's the kind of thing they'll say when trying to describe his faith and all of layers which to a modern person who just hears that especially if you haven't listened to these last four episodes we've done building to this point that can sound on the surface like it's kind of an oxymoron like tragic Christianity existential questions I mean isn't Christianity the thing you believe in so you don't got to be in agony with existential dread every day I mean someone could say that when it comes to how most people seem to be using this Christianity thing Jesus was basically a a fidget spinner that had 12 disciples I mean how can that ever anything but something that helps people cope with a painful reality they can't fully affirm well if you want to understand where he's coming from with his faith first thing we got to make sure we're doing is not reducing Christianity and all of religion for that matter to just a superficial lazy kind of religion that gives people easy answers certainly plenty of people out there you could find that'll use religion like this but Doki and many other people are not this kind of Christian and it's understandable sometimes just as humans we'll take the worst example of something we've seen seen in the world and will make the entire thing into the worst things we've seen from it but out of respect to the history of people who have thought about stuff on this planet you know if we want to honor the ideas here with religion being a big part of what human thought has been over the years well let's make a PCT to try not to do that with religion at least for this conversation today in fact if you remember the episode we just did before we started this ...