SLAVIC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antitheism, Russian Literature, The Grand Inquisitor
16 Mar 2018
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Lise questions alyosha because he is analyzing the captain as if he were better than him. The line of morality comes when you treat another person as an object. Minimizing them to less than a person, they don"t have the right to choose. Ivan: "you and i have an eternity to speak"; "we are existing outside of time" You never know if ivan is being serious. Ivan is going to argue that god is immoral/evil. Switches from being an atheist to an antitheist (opposed to god) Immortality - anything beyond the chain of cause and effect. Ivan argues against goodness and morality of nature. Duel for alyosha"s soul (ivan is going to try to shake alyosha"s faith) Going to present arguments against religious belief (moral arguments) Statement of what happens that makes moral justification of god impossible. "i must make you one confession, i could never understand how one could love one"s neighbors"
