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Episode 164: Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" on Perfection (Part One)
Episode May 15, 2017

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

From The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast • Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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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