![]() ![]() They do not fulfill the Christian ideal of actively loving your neighbor in accordance with God’s will. Yet ultimately, in the context of the discussion of Christian love, Dostoevsky views both Ivan’s and the Inquisitor’s expressions of love as insufficient. Likewise, Ivan is also portrayed by Dostoevsky as a loving individual. However, this paper proposes that the Grand Inquisitor’s scheme is actually an expression of active love, a principle that is highly extolled in the Christianity that he apparently rejects. The Grand Inquisitor and, by extension, his creator Ivan, are often seen as simply hyper-rational characters who reject God’s love. ![]() Among his many characters, he offers complex portraits of two intriguing individuals, whose love does not quite fit his definition of this ideal. In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky spends countless pages elucidating his ideal of love. ![]()
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