Tuesday Post

Today in class we discussed the effect of the changing laws of nature and how people have bought into a system that they accept as fact but is truly nothing more than human constructions and beliefs. Dostoyevsky has a change of course in the middle of chapter three. He spent the beginning of the book disproving religion and now, we can truly understand his conflict with contradictions stemming from overly acute consciousness. He is now beginning to argue that like religion, the laws of nature and science are nothing more than human constructions that people believe and accept as pure fact. Dostoyevsky argues that people do this because they cannot fathom the concept of infinity and more importantly, the infinity of our lack of knowledge. He says that since we can never understand everything, we create laws to believe in, we create logic. He contends that our logic is flawed because it is constantly changing thus disproving what came before it, and also because it cannot explain the most important concept of all, infinity.