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Ivan's Suffering In The Brothers Karamazov

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Ivan’s complaint is his inability to logically resolve the issue of spiritual injustice: even though Ivan believes in God, he fails to reconcile the universal suffering with the idea of all loving God. Ivan believes that God’s eternal happiness is not worth the suffering experienced on earth (in regards to children primarily). Since Ivan mainly relies on reason, in time he starts to feel psychologically disrupted when he cannot fully explain the mechanics of religion. It may seem that The Brothers Karamazov advances with Ivan’s complaints, yet it posits a belief in God based on faith rather than reason. It propagates one’s altruism rather than mere logic. The suffering about which Ivan is exceptionally concerned is part of God’s creation.
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