Tolstoy: What Can Beauty Teach Us? (3/4)

EPISODE SUMMARY
There are brief moments in our lives where we are thrust out of ourselves and granted to see life as exceptionally magnificent, but also too close to touch, and impossible to fathom. For some people, it is love, poetry, friendship or maybe a film which causes us to see our world as a beautiful and cohesive whole for a fleeting and mysterious moment. For Andrei, it is the sky over a battlefield, a few notes in a song, and the cold grip of death. What do these moments of profound insight and deep emotion show us about life?

EPISODE NOTES

• Buy War and Peace and actually read (or listen) to it! You won't regret it.
• See our full introduction to the series and more information on our website. wellreadchristian.com/tolstoys-war-and-peace
• The intro music for this series is a section from a piece by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844—1908) titled The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship. Rimsky-Korsakov was a contemporary of Leo Tolstoy and my favorite Russian composer of the era. I hope you enjoy the segment and the podcast.
• The artwork is titled Battle of Moscow, 7th September 1812, painted in 1822 by Louis-François Lejeune.
• Episode title changed from "What Can Our Intuitions Tell Us About Reality?" to "What Can Beauty Teach Us?" on 8/20/19

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