Tolstoy on Life

Author: Tolstoy
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Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Life has two forms—one is mortal life, and the other is immortal life. Mortal life is the life of the body, while immortal life is the life of reason. The Chinese call it the spirit and the flesh. The great writer Tolstoy, around the age of 55, devoted a year to this profound question of life and death. Day and night, he thought of nothing else but this book in his mind. He aimed to express the essence of his existence with clear logic. The result of his contemplation was the realization of an immortal life. He did not wish to discuss the mortal life, so he no longer talked about death. His discourse shifted from life and death to life, and from the spirit and the flesh to the spirit. He wanted to use this year to resolve the restlessness brought by life and the spirit.
In 1887, the book titled On Life was prepared for publication as a standalone volume, but it was seized and destroyed by the censors. Four years later, in 1891, it was finally officially published in Geneva. Life was the central theme of Tolstoy's lifelong contemplation, but only this book was titled On Life. This book discusses love and hatred, suffering and joy, fortune and misfortune, sorrow and happiness, separation and reunion. In the end, it boils down to one sentence: Why was man created? Where can man find peace? What is the meaning of knowing one's destiny? The reasons to read this book.
Chekhovsky said he perceived the purity of morality in the lives around him with his own eyes and ears, and he examined the masses in social life with his unique dialectical mind. Turgenev called him both a thinker and an artist. He was regarded as a writer, a reformer, and a moral philosopher. He firmly believed that the entire history of humanity for the past two thousand years was merely a history of individual moral progress and governmental moral decline. He was widely recognized as one of the most influential moralists of the 19th century.
Recommended for the following groups to read this book: Those who live well or live poorly, philosophers or small merchants, Tolstoy admirers or opponents, people in adversity or in prosperity, party and government officials or the common people, students at all levels.