Arthur Koestler

The Yogi and the Commissar and Other Essays

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Title Context: The Yogi and the Commissar and Other Essays
Primary Contributor: Arthur Koestler
System ISBN Index: 9780090757909
Language Presentation: English (US Standard)
Page Manifest Extent: Standard Printing Edition Count pages

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**The Yogi and the Commissar** (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations. In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book.

In the title essay, Koestler proposes a continuum of philosophies for achieving "heaven on earth", from the Commissar at the materialist, scientific end of the spectrum, to the Yogi at the spiritual, metaphysical end. The Commissar wants to change society using any means necessary, while the Yogi wants to change the individual, with an emphasis on ethical purity instead of on results.

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