On Life


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(5 stars; 3 reviews)

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)

Chapitres

Introduction 34:32 Lu par Richard Vogel
Chapter 1 The essential contradiction inherent in human life 6:50 Lu par Arden
Chapter 2 Humanity has recognized from the earliest days the contradiction of l… 9:04 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 3 The errors of the Scribes 5:15 Lu par Ian S. Carr
Chapter 4 The doctrine of the Scribes substitutes the visible manifestation of … 7:18 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 5 The false doctrines of the Pharisees and Scribes no more explain the … 9:38 Lu par Tatiana Chichilla
Chapter 6 The division in the consciousness of the men of our time 6:45 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 7 The division of consciousness proceeds from the confusion of the anim… 7:27 Lu par marvinch
Chapter 8 The division and the contradiction are only apparent: they are the co… 5:39 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 9 The birth of the true life in man 6:13 Lu par jenno
Chapter 10 Reason is the law recognized by man, in conformity with which his li… 6:18 Lu par Kerry Adams
Chapter 11 False direction of knowledge 9:44 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 12 The cause of false knowledge is the false perspective in which objec… 9:01 Lu par jenno
Chapter 13 The possibility of understanding objects increases not in proportion… 10:55 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 14 The true human life is not that which is lived in time and space 8:56 Lu par pratibhanair
Chapter 15 The renunciation of the wellbeing of the animal individuality is the… 7:32 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 16 The animal individuality is the instrument of life 5:17 Lu par colleenomorrow
Chapter 17 Birth by the Spirit 3:25 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 18 The demands of the reasonable consciousness 10:40 Lu par worldwideput
Chapter 19 Confirmation of the demands of the reasonable consciousness 10:22 Lu par John
Chapter 20 The demands of the individuality appear incompatible with those of t… 5:30 Lu par ivobrkn18Harrop
Chapter 21 What is required is not renunciation of our individuality but the su… 10:01 Lu par Michael Fassio
Chapter 22 The feeling of love is the manifestation of the activity of the indi… 10:01 Lu par John
Chapter 23 The manifestation of the feeling of love is impossible to men who do… 16:54 Lu par Paul Lawley-Jones
Chapter 24 True love is a consequence of the renunciation of the welfare of the… 9:43 Lu par Tim Juang
Chapter 25 Love is the sole and complete activity of the true life 7:58 Lu par Tim Juang
Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their… 7:01 Lu par Jesse Zuba
Chapter 27 The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unsolved contradi… 10:06 Lu par Jesse Zuba
Chapter 28 Carnal death destroys the body limited in space and the consciousnes… 14:04 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Chapter 29 Men fear death because they have restricted life by their false conc… 7:19 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Chapter 30 Life is a relationship to the world. The movement of life is the est… 7:05 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Chapter 31 The life of men when they are dead does not cease in this world 11:57 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Chapter 32 The dread of death proceeds from man's confusion of his different re… 9:41 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Chapter 33 The visible life is a part of the infinite movement of life 11:34 Lu par czandra
Chapter 34 The incomprehensibility of the sufferings of earthly existence prove… 20:40 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Chapter 35 Physical sufferings constitute an indispensable condition of the lif… 11:30 Lu par Luke Hamilton
Conclusion 2:44 Lu par Kerry Adams
Appendix I 5:24 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Appendix II 4:23 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Appendix III 3:30 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf
Appendix IV Mr. H. W. Massingham on "Life" 16:36 Lu par Jeffrey Allen Stumpf

Critiques

Simply brilliant


(5 stars)

This should be considered a must-read classic for anyone seriously interested in philosophy, religion, or spirituality. It is a concise dissection and beautiful supply of the meaning and manner of human life. I know of no better.

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(5 stars)

Blown away. Exactly what I needed to hear.