Etiket: Free Will in Tolstoy’s War and Peace

Lev Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace (1865–1869) is not only an epic account of the Napoleonic Wars, but also a comprehensive inquiry into the philosophy of history , ethics , and the issue of free will . In the novel, Tolstoy systematically critiques both narratives of individual heroism and the concept of “history of great men,” raising the