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| A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Leo Tolstoy
Creator: Jane Kentish
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 162605
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140444734
Dewey Decimal Number: 201
EAN: 9780140444735
ASIN: 0140444734
Publication Date: August 27, 1987
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 Very interesting, but not philosophy. March 10, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Tolstoy is rightly renowned for being a great novelist and for his ability to bring alive fictitious characters as though they were real people; that talent is very much on display in this book. His articulation of the emotional and intellectual turbulence involved in seeking truth is astounding. His subsequent philosophical conclusions are not accurate; albeit very interesting.
Tolstoy makes certain valuable observations about the Christian church but falls to victim to the glasshouse syndrome in regard to other major religions(he accuses others of things which he is guilty of himself - a common failure of logic). Strangely, he displays a real shortfall in his understanding of Judaism and Islam in particular - the later essays included in this book read a little bit like propoganda, in surprising contrast to the main article(a confession) - which is very objective.
Ultimately there is no one book or perspective which will give an adequate answer to the question of existence but these works by Tolstoy are genuine contributions. Take these contributions and combine them with a wider investigation of Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy and a better understanding of the worlds major religions, and you will be much wiser.
 Probably the best work on the subject I have read so far February 28, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This series of essays should be remembered as being among the great philosophical works of its day - more relevant now than ever.
It is pretty much impossible to encounter a rational/objective exposition of life today, and things seem to be getting worse. The logic of the world seems to be getting more convoluted and ridiculous and that is why this book reads like a breath of fresh air, like a little dosage of sanity to give you hope.
It's like Nietszche, Ghandi, Joseph Heller and the Pope all mixed into one book. Genius.
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