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As far back as Plato, people have asked "what is the point of being good?". We find this today in the phrase "nice guys finish last" or "it's a dog eat dog world". Few people have had the courage to suggest that it might be worth being kind even when it does not go our way. but Dostoevsky is one of them. This is The Idiot, Dostoevsky's most personal book, and here he talks about the courage, and the foolishness, of being kind.
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00:00:00 The Consequences of Kindness
00:04:06 The Idiot: An Incomplete Synopsis
00:12:20 Prince Myshkin: The Modern Saviour
00:20:35 Society, Money, and Worth
00:28:39 Love's Labour's Martyred
00:36:56 The Boundless Cruelty of Man
00:45:56 Machiavelli and Myshkin
00:53:46 A Leap of Faith
01:01:16 Dignifying an Idiot