The assignment is fairly intense and deals with philosophy of religion and excerpts from the book

"the Grand Inquisitor" by Dostoevsky

paying 2k fg for the help. PM

Probably need to have taken a few uni level philosophy courses; or have done a lot of reading on your own. ~ 5 pages of reading; ~ 5 fairly intensive questions

It is an extremely complicated passage, and it can be read without reading the entire book.

I can point you in the right direction, but your teacher might not agree with me, since it is as "elitistic" as it can get.

The devil, and not God, is the true knower of man.
What God set upon man, the decalogues, surpasses the great masses of mankind.
Only the elect few, which are VERY few, can possibly handle the pressure that the teaching brings upon their souls.
God gave man freedom of choice, to follow him. To decide what is good and what is evil with God's own image before them as the only guidance.
Dostoyevsky says that the great masses cannot possibly handle "freedom."
It is beyond their powers, capacities - it is to great a burden on the people - and so on.
The Devil knew this about man.
This is a crude but not inacurate interpretation.

I will not go into the conspiracy part of it, your teacher will most likely not either.

Goodluck,
Also, mind sharing what the teacher and you in the class talked about in the seminar?


EDIT: To clarify; What God gave mankind is beyond mankind (99%). Their spirit cannot, "psychologically," handle the pressure that freedom of choice brings with it.

This post was edited by Myhthos on Jun 29 2014 01:37pm

Upping offer to 2500 (need it tn)





Very interesting point. I can see Dostoyvsky emphasize that men are very lost in their own free will. And that when all these differing ideologies interact the entire situation becomes a mess.

The way he tells the story to me seems to highlight the fact that they all have solutions to each-others problems collectively; but their differing ideologies and 'flawed' human tendencies and inefficient communication get in the way of them solving those issues.


He shows you in simple terms a simple social algebraic problem with all the variables filled in and shows how humans are terrible at math (solving social problems).

~~ Like my comparison?~~

Bump. Still ISO

What he means is this:
Average human nature cannot possibly handle what it means to live a fully, or near fully, human life.
They want nothing more than give away their freedom to someone who can lead them. To give them the tablets of good and evil.
God has made human nature in a way that the great masses of mankind must be coerced, and wants to be coerced (once they have had their spirit burdened by "freedom").

Bump. Offer still stands.