Valerio Di Stefano

On Life by Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

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What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and organise his thoughts on the subject. On Life is his philosophical answer where love, religion, and morality come together to ground us in reality. - Summary by Cao Yuqing

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Valerio Di Stefano

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Appendix IV Mr. H. W. Massingham on "Life" 04.09.2023 16:37

Chapter 34 The incomprehensibility of the sufferings of earthly existence proves to man more convincingly than anything... 04.09.2023 20:41

Chapter 30 Life is a relationship to the world. The movement of life is the establishment of new and loftier relationships... 04.09.2023 7:05

Chapter 19 Confirmation of the demands of the reasonable consciousness 04.09.2023 10:22

Appendix III 04.09.2023 3:30

Chapter 32 The dread of death proceeds from man's confusion of his different relationships to the world 04.09.2023 9:41

Chapter 33 The visible life is a part of the infinite movement of life 04.09.2023 11:35

Chapter 28 Carnal death destroys the body limited in space and the consciousness limited in time... 04.09.2023 14:05

Chapter 27 The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unsolved contradiction of life 04.09.2023 10:07

Chapter 24 True love is a consequence of the renunciation of the welfare of the individuality 04.09.2023 9:43

Appendix II 04.09.2023 4:24

Chapter 22 The feeling of love is the manifestation of the activity of the individuality subjected to the reasonable consciousness 04.09.2023 10:01

Chapter 35 Physical sufferings constitute an indispensable condition of the life and welfare of men 04.09.2023 11:30

Chapter 10 Reason is the law recognized by man, in conformity with which his life must be perfected 04.09.2023 6:18

Chapter 9 The birth of the true life in man 04.09.2023 6:14

Chapter 31 The life of men when they are dead does not cease in this world 04.09.2023 11:58

Chapter 29 Men fear death because they have restricted life by their false conception, taking a part of life to be the whole 04.09.2023 7:19

Chapter 21 What is required is not renunciation of our individuality but the subjugation of individuality to the reasonable consciousness 04.09.2023 10:02

Chapter 8 The division and the contradiction are only apparent: they are the consequence of false doctrine 04.09.2023 5:40

Appendix I 04.09.2023 5:24

Chapter 23 The manifestation of the feeling of love is impossible to men who do not understand the meaning of their life 04.09.2023 16:54

Chapter 18 The demands of the reasonable consciousness 04.09.2023 10:40

Conclusion 04.09.2023 2:45

Chapter 15 The renunciation of the wellbeing of the animal individuality is the law of human life 04.09.2023 7:33

Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their existence, deprive them of the possibility of living the one 04.09.2023 7:02