On Life


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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 (6 hr 24 min)

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

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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.