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Ivan Karamazov's mistake.(on freedom, Legend of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov)
From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20021201
Author:Wood, Ralph C.
It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov's "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor" as a prescient parable glorifying human freedom and defending it against the kind of totalitarian threats it would face in the twentieth century. Fyodor Dostoevsky's angry atheist delivers an uncanny prophecy of the omnicompetent, freedom-denying state that would arise in his own native Russia. But concerning the liberty that is the only cure for state-sponsored oppression, Ivan is terribly wrong. The Christ of the Grand Inquisitor advocates an idea of freedom that Dostoevsky considered an ...
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