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[https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/opinion/Resist_Not.html by Martin E. Hellman Resist Not Evil] | [https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/opinion/Resist_Not.html by Martin E. Hellman Resist Not Evil] | ||
What could Tolstoy (and Jesus) possibly have meant? Is it not our duty to resist evil? In his flash of inspiration, Tolstoy saw that, in resisting evil, we usually become the very evil we seek to destroy, perhaps worse. In resisting the evils present in communism, the United States built 30,000 nuclear weapons. In resisting the evils present in capitalism, the Soviet Union built 20,000 weapons. These actions created an evil far greater than those being resisted: the real danger that civilization will be destroyed. | What could Tolstoy (and Jesus) possibly have meant? Is it not our duty to resist evil? In his flash of inspiration, Tolstoy saw that, in resisting evil, we usually become the very evil we seek to destroy, perhaps worse. In resisting the evils present in communism, the United States built 30,000 nuclear weapons. In resisting the evils present in capitalism, the Soviet Union built 20,000 weapons. These actions created an evil far greater than those being resisted: the real danger that civilization will be destroyed. | ||
=====Tolstoy’s Philosophy of Non-Violence: A Discourse===== | |||
[https://www.ijrah.com/index.php/ijrah/article/view/245 by Intergrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 31/5/23] | |||
The title of this paper is Tolstoy’s Philosophy of Non-violence: A Discourse and the major thesis projected in this research is the idea that the actualization of peace, as demonstrated in Tolstoy’s philosophy of non-violence, requires the adoption of a revolutionary approach which has the potential of terminating the vicious circle of violence. | |||
