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)

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

Reseñas

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.