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The story of the Grand Inquisitor, although it is only an episode from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, has garnered the exclusive attention of philosophers, theologians, politicians, and of course, critics.
Its contemplation invaded the 20th century with the chilling urgency that accompanied Nietzsche's views on European nihilism, which asserted that the "demolition" of all values would define the nightmarish fate of the European man. Dostoevsky saw this nihilism galloping forward, atop the beast of rationalism, and countered it with the deep, irrational faith of Orthodoxy in the nightmarish fate of Man in general.
Intellectuals at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th sensed it, but only a few murmured something. Most approached the issue from a moral or theological perspective, but the real question posed by the Grand Inquisitor is not theological - it is political.
The questions it raises relate to the human capacity to build a just life. How is this achieved? Through faith or through the systematic imposition of ideas? Through love or through violence? By the masses or by the leaders? By the people or by the power?
Manufacturer
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Govosti
- Publishers
- Gavostis Publications
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 80
- Release Date
- 1/2016
- Publication Date
- 2016
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604461097
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