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Welcome
to RUSS 352 / HUMA 381!
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This course is about a writer of
fiction who grappled with the fundamental problems of human existence. He
asked, what is good and evil? What is permissible if God does not exist?
Dostoevsky is the one who wrote:
"There are three powers, three
powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive forever the conscience
of these impotent rebels. . . those forces are miracle, mystery and
authority. . . for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous."
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He also wrote:
"As man cannot bear to be
without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for
himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft. . . . We have
corrected Thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery and
authority. . . Oh, the work is only beginning, but it has begun. . . [And
when it ends] all will be happy, all the millions of creatures except the
hundred thousand who rule over them. For only we, we who guard the
mystery, shall be unhappy."
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Come explore with us these and
other provocative statements of Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Krasinski,
Schiller and Alasdair MacIntyre.
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