Author: Lev Tolstoy
Category: Philosophy and Sociology
Love and Duty, published in 1921, collects Lev Nikolayevsky's aphorisms on the theme of love. The book belongs to what can be called the second period of Tolstoy (period in which the works of greatest moral and ethical value are included). The maxims, contained in the book, principles according to which to lead their lives, are divided into chapters: because they love men, the species of love, love and duty, moral life, relationships between the sexes and, lastly, women and mothers. In particular, in one of these, the species of love, three types of love are described: the elegant, the devoted and the active.
The work "Love and Duty", in order to be understood at its best, must therefore be framed in the literary and moral context to which Lev Tolstoy belonged in the last years of his life. The writer, in fact, abandoned the world, had retired to Jàsnaja-Poljana to lead a simple existence, inspired by Christian doctrine, the renunciation of wealth, work and goodness towards all living beings. For Tolstoy, love is synonymous with goodness, affection extended to all human beings. Man loves, not because it is his interest to love this or that, but because love is the essence of his soul, because he cannot fail to love. The aphorisms of "Love and Duty" make known the thought of a narrator whose works are invaluable and offer an additional cue to know the one who left us such a rich and extraordinary literary heritage.
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