Leo Tolstoy

Though Leo Tolstoy is most well-known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which he wrote when he was in his forties, pieces written after he turned fifty were the ones that clearly established the philosophy known as Tolstoyism. Tolstoyism is a philosophy that denounces the “artificial refinements of society” (2) material wealth, private property, alcohol and tobacco, patriotism, military conscription, and capital punishment – and advocates vegetarianism and pacifism. The paragraph cited above, form A conf…

…hurch system-through which war and capital punishment are manifested. If we do this, he thought, our lives will have significance the inevitability of death will not destroy and we will be one with God. The importance of Tolstoy’s writings and philosophy certainly were not destroyed the inevitability of his own death in 1910.