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Works of Leo Tolstoy: War And Peace: Second Epilogue

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

Tolstoy, Leo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
War And Peace: Second Epilogue

This whole last second epilogue is an essay, philosophic in intent, on
the difficult subject of free will and necessity. In one sense it is not an
essential part of the novel; in another sense, the novel is a demonstration of
its principles. Briefly, in great and complex matters individual free will is
an illusion; that which happens has to happen; God or necessity determine the
great currents of affairs; even individual actions are of questionable
determinacy; if one analyzes some choice which one regards as freely made, one
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