caa a22 4500 445375736 CHVBK 20180317143001.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11212-010-9133-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11212-010-9133-8 Scanlan James Ohio State University, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 206, 43212, Columbus, OH, USA aut Tolstoj as analytic thinker: his philosophical defense of nonviolence [Elektronische Daten] [James Scanlan] By way of countering Tolstoj's reputation as an alogical and inept philosophical thinker, this paper explores the tension between maximalism and reasonableness in his defense of the ethics of nonviolence. Tolstoj's writings of the last decade of his life show that he was perfectly capable of making appropriate conceptual distinctions, recognizing legitimate objections to his position, and responding rationally to them; in so doing, he made valuable points about the unpredictability of human actions, the futility of using violence to combat violence, the equal worth of all humans lives, and the immorality of revenge. Yet his conception of the moral ideal, together with his missionary zeal, led him to exaggerate the absoluteness of his moral message, causing him to predict the unpredictable and demand the impossible of human beings. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Leo Tolstoj nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Utilitarianism nationallicence Violence nationallicence Nonviolence nationallicence Nonresistance nationallicence Unpredictability nationallicence Conscience nationallicence Maximalism nationallicence Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/1(2011-02-01), 7-14 0925-9392 63:1<7 2011 63 11212 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-010-9133-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-010-9133-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Scanlan James Ohio State University, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 206, 43212, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in East European Thought Springer Netherlands 63/1(2011-02-01), 7-14 0925-9392 63:1<7 2011 63 11212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer