On Life and What is religion? were published by the Fee Age Press in England a publishing house set up to sidestep the censorship of Tolstoy in Russia, and to give him an international voice. So what is life? Life is the sum of functions which resist death, says the scientist. But is it more than that, asks Tolstoy in On Life a philosophical and religious search for an understanding of life beyond scientific formulae. For Tolstoy, the basic contradiction for humanity is this people aim solely for their own well being, but discover along the way that their own well being depends also on the well being of others. A further discovery by such people is that decay, old age and death attend their every step. Such basic human truths are the context for Tolstoys search for happiness, in which Buddhist, Jewish, Stoic and Christian views are considered, as well as those of science. Tolstoy believes that fear of death is merely the consciousness of the unsolved contradiction of life a sign of a carnal or animal mentality, which mistakenly takes part of life to be the whole. Tolstoy believes that individual wellbeing must be renounced and replaced by our reasonable consciousness, which points the way to true happiness, and brings human rebirth. What is religion? is a collection of articles and letters written by the mature Tolstoy of 1901 and 1902. Here is a variety of subject matter, including a book review of a German novel Tolstoys response to his excommunication by the church an...

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