Fyodor Dostoevsky Complete Lecture Series -  Matt Raphael Johnson
Channel: Yanni McQueen
Date: 2019-02-10

Recorded Jun 4th, 2009 

P1

- Dostoyevsky as theologican and philosopher
- Basic approaches to Dostoyevsky's work
- Basic moral and metaphysical issues

P2

* Dostoyevsky’s novels The Idiot and Notes from the House of the Dead
* How Middle Class life is easily replicated in prison
* How is evil to be confronted? Though the innocence in Price Myshkin in The Idiot
* Innocence, since it cares not for reputation, cannot be harmed
* Social movements just create another world of grasping politicans

p3

- Dostoyevsky's The Possessed.
- Dostoyevsky's critique of ideology.
- Two views of Human community: Russian and European.
- Why the West incapable of saving itself.