Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov | Christ's Coming and the Grand Inquisitor | Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, book 5, chapter 5. It focuses specifically on Ivan's introduction of the Grand Inquisitor, in the "poem" of that title. Ivan introduces this figure in response to Alyosha's invocation of Christ.
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The Grand Inquisitor is a gem within a gem. The book is my favorite work of fiction (or prophecy if you will). I wish FD had lived long enough to give us the sequel.
Ivan’s talk with Alyosha and this chapter got my mind bent
It is indeed quite something
Words cannot explain my love for Dostoevsky.
They just did, a little bit!
Great video! I also love the sequence towards the end when the devil mocks Ivan for writing the Grand Inquisitor, a "poem by a promising writer"!
In the chapter in which the Devil "visits" Ivan, I guess.
I just completed Chapter 5 (The Grand Inquisitor) and came across this video. Very helpful indeed. Thank-you!
Glad it was useful for you. You'd probably find the other ones in the series useful as well
Great! Thank you teacher
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov | Christ's Coming and the Grand Inquisitor | Core Concepts
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In chapter 5, entitled The Grand Inquisitor, the Grand Inquisitor talks about the recently appeared Jesus Christ on Earth. Ivan brings this up as a response to Alyosha's argument about the problem of evil. Alyosha says he has forgotten about this guy, but Ivan still needs to.
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Ivan is presenting this poem as a response to the bringing up of Christ. It offers a vignette between the Grand Inquisitor and Christ, or somebody who might be Christ, and talks about higher powers coming down to earth.
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15 centuries have gone by since men ceased to receive pledges from heaven, and many miracles have been performed. However, a heresy has arisen and some people are doubting the authenticity of these miracles, and those who believe are becoming more ardent in their belief.
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After so many centuries, Christ came again, pleading with faith and fire, and appeared quietly inconspicuously in the scorched squares of a southern town where the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor burned almost 100 heretics at once.
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This could be one of the best passages of the poem. People flock to him, surround him, follow him, and are healed by the touch of him.
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The Grand Inquisitor arrives, and the damsel rises up in her coffin, sits up and smiles, looking around in wide-eyed astonishment.
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The Grand Inquisitor arrests the guy who's been doing miracles, and later goes down to question him, but the guy doesn't say anything to him except at the very end where he gives them a kiss.
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The grand inquisitor makes some arguments, gives some explanations, and issues some challenges to this Christ who has appeared before his people. Alyosha breaks in and asks if it's a mistake on the old man's part or some impossible qui pro quo.
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The older man speaks out, clarifying his position and saying all that he has been silent about for 90 years. He quickly adds, don't answer. Be silent after all because you have no right to add anything new here.
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He says you've come to interfere with us and know it yourself. He says the older man points out that everything has already been said once and that he may as well not come at all now or at least not interfere with us for the time being.
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The church has succeeded in getting people to give up their freedom freely. This is a central existentialist theme that many people can't handle.
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Early in his ministry, Christ goes out into the desert to fast for 40 days and nights and is tempted by the devil to turn stones into bread. However, the people prioritize bread over other things, and Christ is tempted by the dread and intelligent spirit.
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The Grand Inquisitor is explaining that the Dread spirit asked three questions that expressed the entire future history of Mankind. If all the combined wisdom of Earth could not think of anything faintly resembling these three questions, a real thundering miracle was performed on Earth.
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The Grand Inquisitor is talking to Christ about how he is upsetting the apple cart and how he has to get rid of him. The Grand Inquisitor is positioning the characters in this way and providing them to Eliot Dostoevsky, who provides this to us, the readers.
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The kiss man, the kiss. What did it represent? Ivan accuses Alyosha of thievery immediately afterward when he does it. Does it represent unconditional love? Or forgiveness? Both?!? What!? What does Dostoevsky mean by showing affection for the corrupted thing standing in front of you?
It's a deliberately ambiguous symbol. Read into it what you like
Sometimes I feel that the Grand Inquisitor gets too much attention compared to the whole novel. The final trial for the murder at the end of the second part of the book is much more valuable, if we're gonna pick a chapter from the novel..
We're picking one here
Did the Grand Inquisitor fall victim to the third temptation himself?
I would also like to note... Father Zosima understood all from a Look from Ivan, As well did Allyosha from a Look from Dimitri.
What does he say about he and his fellow workers in the chapter?
@@GregoryBSadler that they claimed the Sword of Cesar to worship the devil and provide happiness to mankind because the burden Christ laid upon the backs of men was too heavy.
I still don’t understand what Ivan is trying to convey with this poem”
Reread and reflect
@@GregoryBSadler I have multiple times. My question is this - Ivan is using this poem to argue why he is atheist especially. And it is his own poem. So why then does it seem that Jesus gets the final say anyway with his Kiss. Why should Ivan need to include that?
Reread the previous chapter
@@GregoryBSadler do you understand my question or do you have some sort of bot set up that replies to comments with different versions of reread
@@ragnarwinther4984 I understand your question all right. Do the work, buddy. I've given you enough time for now
Why does God perform miracles by healing the blind man and raising the girl from the dead, but rejects the temptations of proving he is God by miracles when Satan asks him?
Good issue for you to think about further, I suppose
Heh heh heh heh
So was Dostoevsky an athiest?
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No, he was a believer.
No. He was a believer. Alyosha was based on son his who died as a child