Tolstoy's Realistic Aesthetic Principles and Ethical Aesthetic Ideals

Tolstoy paid special attention to emphasized and followed the principles of realistic aesthetics in his literary and artistic creations for more than half a century. He always adhered to his aesthetic ideal of religious ethics. His aesthetic principles are mainly reflected in the four aspects of attaching importance to the relationship between literature and art and social life, and attaching importance to the truthfulness, typification and people of literature and art. His aesthetic ideals are manifested in the relationship between the true, the good, and the beautiful, which tends to make the truth and the beauty ethically good:beauty is good (religious awareness) as content, truth (the essence of human life) as a basis for good and to fulfill the conditions for good; good is the center and the core, and the beauty and truth are conditions for each other, tend to be and integrate into the good.