Dostoevsky's 1880 final novel — presenting four brothers (the sensualist, the intellectual, the saint, the illegitimate) and their father's murder — which contains the Grand Inquisitor parable, the most profound fictional treatment of the tension between freedom and security, and Christ's encounter with the church.
Creates the Grand Inquisitor parable as the definitive fictional treatment of freedom vs. security — the chapter in which Ivan imagines Christ returning to Seville and being imprisoned by the Inquisitor (who argues that humans want bread, miracle, and authority more than freedom) is the most cited fictional passage in philosophy, theology, and political theory.
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