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Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Lecture no. 4 from the course: Life Lessons from the Great Books
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Taught by Professor J. Rufus Fears | 30 min | Categories: Literature & Language
Evil, suffering, and death have important purposes that we oftentimes can't understand, according to Professor Fears. In this lecture, see how Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov explores the depths of the Russian soul and teaches us about the very meaning of human existence.
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Seneca: “On Providence”
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The Gospel of John
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Boethius, Martin Luther King: Conscience
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Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
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Elie Wiesel: Night
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Schweitzer: Out of My Life and Thought
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Goethe: The Sufferings of Young Werther
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Euripides: Medea
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Shakespeare: Macbeth
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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
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Homer: Odyssey
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Sophocles: Philoctetes
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The Song of Roland: Chivalric Adventure
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Nibelungenlied: Chivalric Romance
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T. E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Menander: The Grouch
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Machiavelli: La Mandragola
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Erasmus: In Praise of Folly
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Thomas More: Utopia
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