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Isaac the Sacrificial Lamb
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MA - Philosophy - Research Focus: Lev Tolstoy & Friedrich Nietzsche, Existentialism, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Anarcho-Communism, History of Russian Philosophy, Sophiology.
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yes, the reward of labor is labor and not wealth. And labor for others with the certitude of permanence is the best incentive.
- Lev Tolstoy
January 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The best minds of Europe are hellbent on creating weapons of death and means of communication. Both are the tools of destruction.
- Lev Tolstoy
January 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Technological progress is seen in the exploitation of the poor and those who will follow suit. Progress is what is profitable for the individual.
- Lev Tolstoy
January 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Not "cogito ergo sum;" space and time are not innate but all moves.
- Lev Tolstoy
January 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Tolstoy famously despised Wilhelm Wundt and Hegel. Most likely, this was derived from his readings of Schopenhauer.
"The philosophy of Wundt and Hegel - concepts. The refutation of concepts is thoughts. What is his refutation of materialism?"
- Lev Tolstoy
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In religion, some contradictions arise. These contradictions are only possible through God. Tolstoy mentions that our soul after death will be outside of time/space, being both before and after, everywhere, and nowhere. These are the Divine contradictions that I believe in.
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
December 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
December 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I highly recommend that those interested in Tolstoy's political philosophy look at Taixu's "Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm." Taixu was greatly inspired by Tolstoy's Christian anarcho-communism, specifically his book "The Kingdom of God is within You." 1/3
December 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Jordan Peterson, unfortunately, does not understand Nietzsche. On top of that, he gives grossly erroneous interpretations of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Instead, I recommend Lev Shestov's book on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.
December 24, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Tolstoy has more philosophical substance compared to Dostoevsky. 1.) Tolstoy wrote a vast amount of nonfiction philosophical essays ranging from metaphysics, ethics, religion, aesthetics, and (most of all) politics. 2.) As Lev Shestov pointed out, Tolstoy was a philosopher first, novelist second. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Tolstoy is great as the spokesman of the ideas and sentiments that emerged among the millions of Russian peasants at the time the bourgeois revolution was approaching in Russia. 1/2
December 24, 2024 at 4:17 PM
December 23, 2024 at 10:33 PM
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
- Emil Cioran
- Takato Yamamoto
December 23, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Tolstoy has the interesting view that the Nicene Creed is incompatible with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. This relates to the long debate on belief versus practice. Tolstoy believed, foremost, in following the law of love and pacifism. Belief came secondary.
December 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
The most common misconception or distortion of Nietzsche's philosophy is "power." The far-right attempt to frame it as some sort of physical strength. However, we know from his "Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche views these types of men as nothing but brutes. 1/2
December 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
If you haven't read Friedrich Nietzsche and you are unsure of where to begin, then I suggest you read "Untimely Meditations" proceeded by "Birth of Tragedy," and "Human, all too Human." These books give you a sketch of Nietzsche's starting position. 1/2
December 23, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Which anarchist looks more like Santa Clause? Lev Tolstoy or Peter Kropotkin?🎅🎅
December 23, 2024 at 3:35 PM
What did you read this weekend? A chapter a day keeps the professor away. I've been reading Gustav Shpet's "Appearance and Sense: Phenomenology as the Fundamental Science and its Problems."
December 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Here are a few reasons why one might want to read Arthur Schopenhauer's (1788-1860) "The World as Will and Representation." First, one can view Schopenhauer's philosophy, generally speaking as a synthesis of Plato, Kant, and Dharmic Religions. 1/8
December 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
In both psychology and logic cognition figures not in its being, but in its role as means. Our concern is with the study of the being of cognition in its essence, that is as a distinctive kind of being. 1/2
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 AM