nd indefatigably" (II, 4). For Dostoevsky such love is a false one and he presents it through such characters as Rakitin, Perkhotin and even Luzhin: Consciousness of life is superior to life, knowledge of the laws of happiness is superior to happiness--that is what we must fight against. (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man , p. 382) One of greatest evils for Dostoevsky are the so-called liberals who "love humanity more than an individual man." Yet he does not represent their behavior as genuinely evil . Their hate towards humanity arises exactly from the opposite: love. Secular humanists see so much evil, crime and inhumanity, they cannot stop it so they rebel. Ivan Karamazov and his rebellion are purely of that kind. He is not vile, he just cannot understand that there might be a solution for such suffering, especially in the case of children who are innocent in Christianity. That is why Ivan asks: Love life more than the meaning of it? (II, 3) Ivan as any average intellectual, wants to know. To know the meaning of life for him is more important than to actually do something about the human suffering. Ivan forgets that one human life is as important as the entire humanity. For him humanity is merely an abstraction which happen to be surrounding him. He thinks that by knowing and logically, rationally finally understanding the mystery of life problems would be solved. For Alyosha, the only answer is love for life, regardless of the meaning and the logic behind it. To help people and try to forgive them if they do wrong or help them if they need help is all that Alyosha wants. Faith in God and people is the only way to live with love. To believe in God and to have trust in human nature and destiny means to forgive and to repent. It means not hurting others. Ivan gets trapped by the power of his own intellect and his own pride: the pride that pulses in humans who want to know more. Ivan contradicts himself with his rebellion....
