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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Today we talk about the book The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We talk about the curse of sainthood. The connection between beauty and morality via his moral-aesthetic spectrum. Realism vs. Idealism. And how beauty can save the world. Hope you love it! :)
I've been listening to this podcast on and off since i was 14. Im 20 now, crazy to think about. Thank you for your work
Hey steven just wanna say thanks so much for doing what you do. I found your podcast last April, during a really dark time in my life.Your show really opened me eyes to the beauty in philosophy, inspired me to live a more examined life, and overall just radically altered my path in the best way. I've listened to all your episodes and they inspired me to return to school and pursue a degree in Philosophy. I'm in my second semester now, currently taking a class on Sartre's Being and Nothingness, and loving every moment.
This series on Dostoevsky has been some of my favorite you've made ever, and I eagerly await every new episode. I read Notes From Underground on your recommendation, and the embarrassment I felt from relating so heavily to the underground man has been a huge catalyst for pursuing my dreams with a newfound vigor.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you
dude, wanna show you my appreciation as I have a chance to listen to this in the first minutes of its release. I haven't finished all of your podcasts yet but I know you from the interview of Alex O'Connor and since then got really interested in learning about philosophy parallel to my studies. It really tickles my mind. Love thinking. Gives me sort of mind orgasm. And you allow me to get introduced to all of that wilderness of good food for my little thinker. Hats off to you great man
Thank you very much for this episode and for that matter, all the others. The Brothers Karamazov was the first Russian novel I thought that wasn't too long.
I read The Idiot as well but per your points, I should give it another go.
I'm not sure yet, but I'm thinking that the mild sarcasm you use is the best ever.
I've made it a purpose in my life to acquire as many definitions of love from as many people as I can. I was married and when things got stressful in our family financially and with kids, he left. I couldn't understand it, how he said he loved me when that was not something somebody would do if they loved. I was convinced he was a liar but after a couple months I realized how subjective it all is.
When we say I love you to another person, we don't realize it but we are telling them that we love them in the way that they know love. It's so important to understand what love means to an individual before declaring it. Loving somebody is not about you, it's about both of you, and if you don't know what love is to you and you don't know what love is to them, someone's gonna have a bad time.
So far I haven't been able to define what love is to me, but I have explored characteristics.
What characteristics does your love have? This is a question for everyone
Sacrifice- to make holy. Unfortunately, that has adverse affects.
very excited for the brothers karamazov. great episode
Great episode again, thank you for doing this.
Thank you for your passion in communicating these important topics to us. It’s always a treat seeing your channel pop up on my YT or Spotify! ❤️🙏🏻
You're incredible, good sir. I'll be very impressed if you contain all of Brothers Karamazov into one single episode
Four hour episode?
My first Dostoevsky book. I was hoping for this. Thank you!
Beauty as aesthetic and moral.
Ethics - striving for beauty within
Truth/beauty/goodness
Pavel Florensky said: "Dostoevsky is pure hysteria".
I read this book in high school and did not understand it. Later I read C&P and Brothers K and have recently picked this book up and am a chapter into it. I can’t wait for the Brothers K episode.
Another epic banger brother keep them coming
Enjoyed this podcast to no end. (Too bad there aren't enough Prince Mishkins, Alyoshas, and Sonyas in our lives ... but then ... on second thought ... we'd grow to hate them. To live with a saint is a whole different thing 😉 than to know one.)
great episode :)
I was searching to see if you had a video over this today. Synchronicity
It’s something to do with balance, harmony and spontaneity. Similar as to the taoist meaning for someone virtuous
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Im scared of the brothers karamazov episode…
It's also one thing to mention is that the word "Idiot" in Russian doesn't mean stupid, in old Russia they used call that overly religious people.
I will have to disagree with PT on beauty being just a subjective judgement. It links in with the biological, neurological and physical. Why is a blue sky "beautiful? Because of a subjective value? No. The wave length of the blue hue of a clear sky releases serotine. It makes us feel on top of the world and want to "seize the day". Being deprived of this for an extended time can initiate SAD (seasonal affective disorder). This is the result of an evolutionary selective process. How shocking! Why would evolution select for anything so miserable? Because evolution cares nothing for how happy we are, only that we reproduce. Think ice age with blizzards outside the cave, little food and the big game animals migrated away for the winter. Those brave hunters who felt highly motivated to "seize the day" would likely by dead and likely not reproduce. Those who survive were those who felt like doing nothing but stay inside and paint on walls, make music and tell stories. It is interesting today that more creative people, like those who might paint, make music and write stories, are also more often prone to depression.
Take music. We may may different tastes in genres but all of us prefer concordant music to discordant music. What is concordant is a biological response to resonance. No one can make themselves like a discordant school recorder band. Rhythm is also biological and measurable. In fact everyone, men and women of all cultures, will rock a back at the same frequency which recreates the vibration of a mother's walk while pregnant. We do not decide which rhythm to rock a baby.
Our experience of beauty is not disconnected with the biological. In fact it is energised by the deeper prehuman areas of the brain we inherited from our pre human ancestors. Those unconscious areas of the mind. We do not entirely "make" aesthetic preferences but rather respond consciously to that which is unconscious. We are animals and we are mostly unconscious animals.
You could say that beauty is what is in harmony with the world and is in balance. The modern world is largely ugly because it is growing beyond what can be sustained by the environment. What is built ugly is designed by people out of balance with themselves. The problem with the "everything is relative" narrative so popular with post modernist types is that it ignores all the non cultural influences bearing on us including physical and biological. The biological world is abhorrent to post modernists which is why they have zero understanding of environmental issues beyond the woke shallow understanding of the "in issue".