Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The great Russian writer Dostoevsky had much to say on the themes of religion, fiction, stories, and more. Laurence and I discuss the different approaches that Dostoevsky had towards religion and how one can properly characterise his controversial and novel contributions to the world of philosophy, theology, and beyond.
We talk about his key texts and works like The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, and more.
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Timestamps:
1:01 Dostoevsky’s Views on Christianity
10:13 Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
12:29 Dostoevsky’s Christ vs the Christ of the Gospels
16:54 Christ and Truth
24:21 Dostoevsky, Love and the Crucifix
29:24 Dostoevsky and Phenomenology
36:27 Holy Fool
39:14 Reading of the Idiot
43:12 Is The Idiot a Failed Project
46:14 Dostoevsky’s Historical Christ
50:56 Roles of Archetypes
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