This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's work, Notes from Underground, which raises a number of issues concerning human freedom, progress, rationality, and desire.

Specifically it examines the relationship between desire and reason, and the priority that desire ultimate has over reason

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