Author: Seymour I. TollPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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The Social and Political Theories of Adin Ballou and Leo Tolstoy
Author: Seymour I. TollTolstoy's Political Thought
Author: Alexandre ChristoyannopoulosPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000650987
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed 'Christian anarchism'. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy’s political thought. It outlines in a systematic way Tolstoy’s thought, which was originally articulated unsystematically in diverse, often informal writing, such as pamphlets, letters, and speeches, as well as books, and in his novels, where Tolstoy’s thinking is put forward implicitly through the novels’ characters. The book sets out the basic themes of Tolstoy’s political thought: his acceptance of the teachings of Jesus, his criticism of the way in which Jesus’ teachings have been relayed by the church through traditional creeds and dogma, his passionate rejection of political violence by both the state and those working for reform, his plea for a nonviolent response to violence and injustice, and his call for society to forego its institutional shackles and enact a community of peace, love, and justice. The book also includes background information on the Russia of Tolstoy’s time, including the religious context, and a discussion of how Tolstoy’s political thought has been received by his admirers, who included Gandhi, and his critics.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 GraPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442942495
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894) is the result of his reflections on his Christian beliefs. The work addresses Tolstoy's separation of Orthodox Russian Christianity from the true message of Christ in the Gospels, which he regards as is a complete code of life for believers. His political philosophy of non-violence and his hatred for compulsory military service introduced in Russia are the main practical concerns of the book.
Tolstoy's Theory of Social Reform
Author: Milivoy Stoyan StanoyevichPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Meaning of the Russian Revolution
Author: Leo TolstoyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"The Meaning of the Russian Revolution" is a novel by Nobel Prize winning and highly-acclaimed Russian author Leo Tolstoy. In describing the 1905 Russian Revolution Tolstoy traces back the history of Europe as a whole and Russia in particular. He suggests that the nation has come full circle and that the people who had earlier submitted themselves to monarchical rule now find themselves burdened with its excesses and corruption. He however advocates for non-violent revolution as the means to bring about a new Russian society.
Tolstoy's Pacifism
Author: Colm McKeoghPublisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604976349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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.
Christian Non-resistance in All Its Important Bearings
Author: Adin BallouPublisher:
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Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Great Iniquity
Author: graf Leo TolstoyPublisher:
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Law of Love and The Law of Violence
Author: Leo TolstoyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113132
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This treatise articulates Tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to do violence — a philosophy that has inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and countless others.
Tolstoy's Theory of Social Reform
Author: Milivoy S. StanoyevichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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