On Life
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Leo Tolstoy
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 (6 hr 24 min)
Chapters
Chapter 2 Humanity has recognized from the earliest days the contradiction of l…
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Chapter 4 The doctrine of the Scribes substitutes the visible manifestation of …
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Chapter 5 The false doctrines of the Pharisees and Scribes no more explain the …
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Chapter 7 The division of consciousness proceeds from the confusion of the anim…
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Chapter 8 The division and the contradiction are only apparent: they are the co…
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Chapter 10 Reason is the law recognized by man, in conformity with which his li…
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Chapter 13 The possibility of understanding objects increases not in proportion…
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Chapter 14 The true human life is not that which is lived in time and space
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Chapter 15 The renunciation of the wellbeing of the animal individuality is the…
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Chapter 20 The demands of the individuality appear incompatible with those of t…
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Chapter 21 What is required is not renunciation of our individuality but the su…
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Chapter 23 The manifestation of the feeling of love is impossible to men who do…
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Chapter 24 True love is a consequence of the renunciation of the welfare of the…
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Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their…
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Chapter 27 The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unsolved contradi…
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Chapter 28 Carnal death destroys the body limited in space and the consciousnes…
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Chapter 29 Men fear death because they have restricted life by their false conc…
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Chapter 30 Life is a relationship to the world. The movement of life is the est…
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Chapter 31 The life of men when they are dead does not cease in this world
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Chapter 32 The dread of death proceeds from man's confusion of his different re…
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Chapter 34 The incomprehensibility of the sufferings of earthly existence prove…
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Chapter 35 Physical sufferings constitute an indispensable condition of the lif…
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