Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and the Truth of the Human Person with Dr. Roniger
Thu, Apr 10
|UT, Robert Rowling Hall 3.406
Perhaps the most fundamental themes in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov are the struggle to disclose the truth of human nature and the way in which social life must be rooted in the truth of what it is to be a person.
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
UT, Robert Rowling Hall 3.406, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
About the speaker:
Dr. Scott J. Roniger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he currently holds the Fr. Robert H. Taylor, SJ Chair in Philosophy and directs the Lonergan Center for Catholic Faith and Culture. He earned a Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology (STB), summa cum laude, and a Masters of Sacred Theology, magna cum laude, from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
About this lecture:
Perhaps the most fundamental themes in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov are the struggle to disclose the truth of human nature and the way in which social life must be rooted in the truth of what it is to be a person. In this lecture, I will argue that the members of the Karamazov family can be understood as incarnations of the various “parts” of the human soul. Thus, their family drama represents the struggle to unify the desires…
