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Tolstoy S Pacifism
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Author : Colm McKeogh
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2009
Tolstoy S Pacifism written by Colm McKeogh and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the most influential, challenging, and provocative pacifist of his generation. The most famous person alive at the dawn of the twentieth century, his international stature came not only from his great novels but from his rejection of violence and the state. Tolstoy was a strict pacifist in the last three decades of his life, and wrote at length on a central issue of politics, namely, the use of violence to maintain order, to promote justice, and to ensure the survival of society, civilization, and the human species. He unreservedly rejected the use of physical force to these or any ends. Tolstoy was a religious pacifist rather than an ethical or political one. His pacifism was rooted not in a moral doctrine or political theory but in his straightforward reading of the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. Despite his fame, Tolstoy's pacifism remains insufficiently studied. A hundred years after his death, Tolstoy is a figure unfamiliar in political science, encountered, if at all, as the author of hortatory quotations on the wrongness of political violence or of allegiance to the state. This work of political science offers an account of Leo Tolstoy as a Christian thinker on political violence. It presents Tolstoy's pacifism as a striking case of the impact of religious idealism on political attitudes. The Russian novelist offers an instructive case study in Christian pacifism and in the attractions and failings of strict, literalist, and simplistic religious approaches to the many and complex issues of politics. Today, the political implications of religious fundamentalism, scriptural literalism, and Christian faith are very much live issues and the contemporary discussion of them should not omit pacifism. In this first study of Tolstoy's pacifism by a political scientist, Colm McKeogh unravels the complexities of Tolstoy's writings on Christianity and political violence. This work serves scholars of political science by bringing together relevant extracts from Tolstoy's writings and providing a succinct treatment of the core political issues. It establishes that Tolstoy's stance is primarily one of non-violence rather than non-resistance. McKeogh's work then assesses the internal consistency of Tolstoy's pacifism, its grounding in the Gospels and Christian tradition, its political and anti-political implications, and the meaning in life that it offers. It finds that Tolstoy does great service to the pacifist cause (with his defense of peace as close to the centre of Christ's message) and yet harm to it too (by divorcing peace from the love that is even more central to Christ's message). Tolstoy's political and religious legacy is not that of a prophet, a social activist, a moral reformer, a political idealist or pacifist theorist but that of a dissident. Tolstoy stands as one of the great dissidents of twentieth-century Russia, a man who condemned the system utterly and who refused to perform any act that could be construed as compromising with it. He left behind a powerful statement of the urgent human need to connect our daily living to a deep and fulfilling conception of the meaning of life. Tolstoy's Pacifism is important for political science, Christian ethics, literature, and Russian collections.
Government Is Violence
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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix
Release Date : 1990
Government Is Violence written by graf Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Phoenix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Political Science categories.
A collection of the man's writings on anarchism and pacifism.
War And Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoi
language : en
Publisher: Collector's Library
Release Date : 2004
War And Peace written by Leo Tolstoi and has been published by Collector's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Widely regarded as the greatest novel in any language, War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The heroine, Natasha Rostova, for example, reaches her greatest fulfilment through her marriage to Pierre Bezukhov and her motherhood. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism
War And Peace Vol 3 4
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Author : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-06-01
War And Peace Vol 3 4 written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. War and Peace's vast canvas includes 580 characters, many historical, others fictional. The story moves from family life to the headquarters of Napoleon, from the court of Alexander I of Russia to the battlefields of Austerlitz and Borodino. The novel explores Tolstoy's theory of history, and in particular the insignificance of individuals such as Napoleon and Alexander.
War And Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-12-23
War And Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-23 with Fiction categories.
Covering the period from the French invasion under Napoleon into Russia. Although not covering solely the war itself, the serialized novel does cover the effects the war had on Russian society from the common person right up to the Tsar himself. The book starts to move more to a philosophical consideration on war and peace near the end making the book as a whole an important piece of literature.
Writings On Civil Disobedience And Nonviolence
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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Writings On Civil Disobedience And Nonviolence written by graf Leo Tolstoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Political Science categories.
What I Believe
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-09-01
What I Believe written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Originally published in 1885, What I Believe is part of series of books by novelist Leo Tolstoy that outline his personal interpretation of Christian theology. After a midlife crisis at age 50, he began to believe in the moral teachings of Christianity, while rejecting mysticism and organized religion. He believed that pacifism and poverty were the paths to enlightenment. His precepts of nonviolence even influenced Mohandas Gandhi. Students of religion, political science, and literature alike will gain new understanding from the ideas presented in this book. Students of literature will get to understand more deeply one of the greatest novelist in history, while those interested in religion and politics can see how Tolstoy's philosophy came to influence the world at large. Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).
War And Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-08-07
War And Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with categories.
War and Peace, The Complete NovelByLeo Tolstoy
War And Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-14
War And Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-14 with categories.
War and Peace (pre-reformatum: War and Peace) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. It is considered as a central work of the world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements.
War And Peace
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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Signet Classics
Release Date : 1968-08
War And Peace written by graf Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Signet Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-08 with Fiction categories.
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle--all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad": " "To read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane."