February 18th Discussion

         I feel that the most important topic that was brought up in today’s discussion is the concept of curiosity and how it plays a role in the way that humans drive towards some sort of an ending or an answer. Even though we only touched on the idea, I feel that the concept of individual curiosity, the idea that no matter how much you can tell me about Paris I still have the need to see it myself is deeply connected with the basic human desire and concept that even if you can prove something to me, I must verify it seeing as what I can see is what is actually true. This brings up an entire wealth of philosophical discussion on the concept of perception as a whole, whether or not we truly perceive what is or what we are seeing is merely a shadow of what is. Yet Dostoyevsky seems to be tending this book towards the idea that the idea of a logical world is illogical, and any attempt to force this infinite and illogical world into a set of rules and logic is futile.