Analysis of The Inquisitors Argument in Dostoevskys The Brothers Kara

Analysis of The Inquisitors Argument in The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky makes a strong case against messiah in The Grand Inquisitor rescuer did not love humanity sufficiently to care for the greater practised of the race. The majority of people, according to the Grand Inquisitor, are promiscuous and like sheep. deliveryman prized license of faith above all else, and because he cared more for that freedom than for the happiness of people, the Grand Inquisitor and the Catholic Church, as led by he Inquisitor, reject Jesus. Only the strong, like the Inquisitor, who can go the cardinal days and nights in the desert, are capable of attaining the reward of Heaven, while the weak millions, who are weak barely still love Thee... must constitute for the sake of the strong. The Inquisitor states that the reason the weak cannot take the narrow highroad to Heaven is that they are afraid of freedom, that they can never be free. Trent Reznor of the tuneful group Nine Inch Nails s ummarized the Inquisitors view of humanity in comfort In Slavery. In the second verse, Reznor wronggs, Slave screams But hes glad to be chained to that wall The central argument that the Grand Inquisitor makes involves the lure of Jesus by the Devil in a desert. friction match poses Jesus three temptations, each of which would better the secular lot of man but decrease his freedom, and Jesus rejects each. First, Satan says, You must be hungry, turn these stones into scratch and feed yourself and the people. Jesus says, Man does not live by earthly bread alone. Jesus was not just refusing to assuage his hunger by performing a miracle, he would have lessened mans freedom of faith. Satan was asking the same question, on the behalf of humanity, that Jame... ...e harmful than any vice (sin) is active pity for all the failures and all the weak Christianity. An interesting political campaign of the Inquisitors view of freedom will come on this next alternative day. Our state se nator, and many other people, claim that we need more inhibitory laws help fight crime in our neighborhoods and that new laws will incite our law enforcement officials... in their efforts to control the pornography industry. I dont intend to make do the pros or cons of more restrictive pornography laws, but one intimacy is certain these laws will limit Americans freedom of speech. will Americans give up some freedom for a possible payoff in lower crime? I call in Dostoevskys Grand Inquisitor would be interested in finding out. References Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Trans. Andrew MacAndrew. young York Bantam, 1981.