In which we meet Levin's half-brother and debate the nature of our existence...
Levin arrives to his half-brother's home in the midst of a spirited discussion regarding "whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity and if so, where it lies?" Both Koznyshev, Levin's half brother, and the professor are aligned in their beliefs, but they're squabbling over a recent article the professor published which Koznyshev believes concedes too much to the materialists.
After listening to the two split hairs for a while, Levin jumps in to make a point: can you exist if you have no senses and no body?
The professor is sort of freaked out by this question, but Koznyshev defuses the tension and they go back to their main argument. Levin tunes out.
I expect this brief chapter is laying pipe for a long-running philosophical discussion. I'm guessing Koznshev is going to stick around for this purpose. I need to bone up on my existentialism.
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