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Nicolas de Warren
The Elder Zosima’s Secret: Patočka and Monotheism


Posted on 18 September, 2012

In one of Jan Patocka’s last writings (1976), an essay on the philosophy of religion in Masaryk, Patocka remarks that the lessons from the life of the Elder Zosima in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov may provide essential clues for responding to the contemporary crisis of Christianity. What is striking about Patocka’s pronouncement is his consideration …
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