Number 4

One of my favorite lines is when the narrator comments that our morals, values, and categories  are no more than logical exercises. This class along with anthropology has taught me that a lot of what most human intelligence is no more than creating complex taxonomies and definitions of how we comprehend whats around us. In anthropology, we see the faults in these ideas because every society has different ways of classifying and defining right and wrong. It shows that on a widespread human intellectual level, that there really few ideas or values all societies have in common, which means we all could be wrong, or all could be right. Yet, more often then not, someone thinks your ideas are crazy.  Dostoyevsky basically shows all defects in a logic that believes people need a structure to tell them what they should do because what the structure tells them is what they would have done if they are more intelligent. However, at the same time this “science” is telling people that they “never really had any caprice or will of his own”. Even though there seems to be contradictions in what he says about himself, he is plaining showing contradictions in what people see as absolute truths. People accept these truths somewhat unconsciously until they are challenge or brought to light.