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 his discussion of the modern thinkers who assert that if human beings simply understood their own self-interest, they would not engage in immoral, unjust, or otherwise bad behavior.

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