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Record W1600578377 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511676246.008

Tolstoy's spirituality

2010· book-chapter· es· W1600578377 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languagees
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicReligious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpiritualityDivinityLiteratureConfession (law)Meaning (existential)ChristianityNarrativePhilosophyReligious studiesHistoryTheologyArtLawEpistemologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Perhaps no aspect of Tolstoy's vast oeuvre is more complicated or controversial than his spirituality. His large fictional narratives from Childhood through Anna Karenina derive much of their charm and a great deal of their intellectual intensity from his characters' agonized searches for the meaning of life. And from 1879 to his death in 1910 Tolstoy concentrated his attention almost exclusively on spiritual matters. His so-called “spiritual writings” – the “religious philosophical tracts” of the 1880s and 1890s, the compendia of 1903–10, and various fictional narratives, including the last great novel Resurrection – spelled out his views on such questions as the ethical content and truth of Christianity, the shortcomings of the Orthodox Church in Russia, the arbitrariness and violence of the Russian state, the hypocrisy and corruption of Russian society, the spiritual bankruptcy of modern ideologies, the meaning of life and death for ordinary Russians, and the common legacy of major world religions. Given the comprehensiveness of his spiritual vision, none of the “vexed questions” haunting Russian public life escaped his attention, yet his answers to these questions, expressed with his trademark erudition and clarity, engendered bitter disagreement. Secular readers like the novelist Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev condemned Tolstoy's spiritual writings for their “reliance on false premises” and their “dark negation of everything vital in human life.” On the other hand, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church excommunicated Tolstoy in February 1901 for denying eleven Christian dogmas, including the existence of the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth of Mary, and the efficacy of the sacraments.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.942
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it