Leo Tolstoy’s Search for the Meaning of Life - WSJ
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/leo-tolstoys-search-for-the-meaning-of-life-technology-death-17c08880 By Gary Saul Morson Aug. 14, 2025 5:28 pm ET Listen (6 min) Reading breathless claims that technology will free us from death, we may wonder at the refusal to face the fundamental fact of the human condition: Mortals are mortal. Leo Tolstoy, whose descriptions of dying remain unequaled, never ceased to ponder how we might find meaning in the face of our inevitable end. Long before Tolstoy experienced the psychological crisis that led to his decadeslong effort to rethink Christianity, he was concerned with spiritual questions. Anyone who has read his two great novels, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina,” wi
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/leo-tolstoys-search-for-the-meaning-of-life-technology-death-17c08880 By Gary Saul Morson Aug. 14, 2025 5:28 pm ET Listen (6 min) Reading breathless claims that technology will free us from death, we may wonder at the refusal to face the fundamental fact of the human condition: Mort
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