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Works of Leo Tolstoy: War And Peace: Book Eleven

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Tolstoy, Leo

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
War And Peace: Book Eleven

Chapter One:

In this chapter Tolstoy continues his explanation of his historical
method. Man can only understand laws of motion by selecting arbitrarily some
elements of that motion. However this leads to human error, as is illustrated
by the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise (in which by continuously dividing
the distance he must cover before he reaches the tortoise, it is demonstrated
that Achilles will never catch the tortoise; this is of course absurd). The
same is true of an historical method which concentrates on ...

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