The Sense of Death in Tolstoy and Kierkegaard
By Michael K. Macrakis, M.A., Ph. D.
Introduction
Death is a subject which concerns mainly religion, the philosophy religion. «The oldest and most common definition is that religion is the link between man and God». According to this definition, religion derived from religare and originally meant «a bond». This bond, of course, is not between two men, «between the sexes», as Ludwig Feuerbach wishes, but between God and man because religion can not exist without God.
