I am still listening to the Dreyfus lectures. I am in the middle of his discussion on “The Grand Inquistor”. I have been thinking hard about what Dreyfus has to say about this story which Ivan creates in the larger story of The Brother’s Karamazov. Although I think his lectures are helpful in illuminating certain [...]

{The beginning of a response to Jake who responded to me, about my response to an old question/comment about Issac, which came from a much larger conversation about Kierkegaard, Faith, and Hubert Dreyfus’ lectures.} I have been reading The Brothers Karamazov—though I feel like I have been reading it for years, I am still only [...]