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Guaranteed waterworks in purgatory
This passage from Dante’s Divine Comedy will definitely make you cry.
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All eyes on salvation
The further we get away from obsession with self, the closer we get to the beatific vision.
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To See the Face of God | Ep. 138
For the penultimate episode of the show, Spencer Klavan is joined by friend and Dante expert Catherine Illingworth to approach the Commedia's beatific vision. Tying together threads from the whole series, and the whole podcast, Spencer and Catherine discuss the roles of flesh and spirit in love as the pilgrim makes his final approach to God in paradise.
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When hobbies clash with your beliefs
What should you do when your beliefs or ideology conflict with the prevailing beliefs of your interests?
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How to read intelligently
You know good literature when you read it, but can’t articulate why. If that’s you, watch this now.
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Dante’s early poetic influences, explained
Before he wrote “Divine Comedy,” how did Dante’s poetic style develop in his early days? Spencer Klavan breaks it all down for you.
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The stench is important
This is Dostoevsky’s answer to the conflicting desire for miracles amidst pain and suffering. Full episode: https://apple.co/3V01HNo
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Quality and Quantity | Ep. 135
When the Devil visits Ivan in the Brothers Karamazov, he looks at first like a rather unimpressive gentleman. But lurking under his seemingly distracted conversation is a sinister depiction of the world broken down into infinite matter, formless and void. What answer can we possibly give to this satanic vision? Spencer Klavan explores Dostoevsky's alternative to modernist perdition.
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What is real spiritual transformation?
Spencer Klavan draws on the concept of “metanoia” to understand how to see the world through eyes of faith.
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This is Father Zosima
Father Zosima is really what expresses Christ in the world in Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov.”
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Guilty | Ep. 134
"Everyone is guilty for everything before everyone”: This week, through the mystery of Father Zosima's life and sermons, Spencer Klavan unfolds Dostoevsky's answer to Ivan, to Nietzsche, and to modern skepticism and scientism. The words of Zosima are at the heart of this sprawling novel, and their wisdom is, if anything, more relevant now than when they were written.
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The Grand Inquisitor, explained
Spencer Klavan summarizes one of the best-known passages in modern literature.
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The most brilliant excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov
Spencer Klavan reads and reacts to a brief, but utterly profound passage from Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.”
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The Siberian criminals surprised Dostoevsky
This explains why Raskolnikov was the person he was, and why Ivan of “The Brothers Karamazov” talked the way he did.
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HEAD-TO-HEAD: Dostoevsky vs. Nietzsche
Who takes the crown for the greatest thinker of the 19th century?
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Everything Is Permitted | Ep. 133
Ivan, the most brilliant and also the most tormented of the brothers in Dotoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov," saw something that few others could see: if there is no immortal soul and no God, then everything is permitted. It's something that Nietzsche realized as well, and it drove him mad. How did Dotoevsky avoid the same fate—and how can we? Spencer Klavan picks up these questions in the second installment of this series.
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Stories make society function
You can’t just have laws. You can’t just have soil. You also need timeless tales to bind us together.
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How artists cause socialist uprisings
The artists who go from starving to elite often feel the most guilt and anxiety toward inequality.
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The battle between head and heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov” represents the author’s internal conflict between fantasy and reality—the same struggle ongoing in today’s society.
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Dostoevsky’s swan song
This is what you need to know about Dostoevsky before reading his last published novel. Full episode: https://bit.ly/yh132yt
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Christianity's most controversial issue
This question deeply separates Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox theologians.
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The eye is a light
Spencer Klavan reads and analyzes two important lines from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6.
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Ep. 132: Heart Truths
Dostoevsky was the kind of artist who peers so deep into the heart of the present that he becomes a prophet of the future. His last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, can be difficult to get into—but if you manage to crack the spine, it will be well worth your while. Spencer Klavan offers a little Young Heretics-style help to get you started.
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