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An excerpt from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" (translated by Ignat Avsey). In it, Ivan Karamazov explains to his brother Alyosha why Ivan finds the problem of evil insoluble. The suffering of innocent children is impossible to justify to Ivan, but if it were justifiable, he would rather reject any such system of justification than accept the suffering of children.
If there is only one book you read before you die, I would highly recommend that you make it this one.
An excerpt from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" (translated by Ignat Avsey). In it, Ivan Karamazov explains to his brother Alyosha why Ivan finds the problem of evil insoluble. The suffering of innocent children is impossible to justify to Ivan, but if it were justifiable, he would rather reject any such system of justification than accept the suffering of children.
If there is only one book you read before you die, I would highly recommend that you make it this one.
