The Later Solov’ëv
Philosophy in Imperial Russia
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Gustav Shpet’s Implicit Phenomenological Idealism: A Response to Husserl’s Ideas I
The issue of whether the phenomenology presented in Ideas I was a metaphysical realism or an idealism came to the fore almost immediately upon its publication. The present essay is an examination of the relation ...
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Introduction
Here at the outset, we review Solov’ëv’s early works together with, in particular, his concept of the all-unity, which he developed therein. Whereas a religious, if not mystical, interpretation of it is natura...
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On Free Will
In this chapter, we look at the position of various representatives of Russian Orthodoxy on the traditional philosophical issue of free will versus determinism and the rise of interest in it among psychologist...
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On Contemporaries and Contemporaneous Movements
We look in this chapter at Solov’ëv’s confrontation during the last decade of his life with recent contemporary philosophies, including Comte’s positivism. While highly critical of it, he came at the end to an...
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Critics Arise and Dismissed, Love Affirmed
The Justification’s final chapter presents Solov’ëv’s vision of the moral ideal, which can and will be realized in accordance with the Christian ideal of a Kingdom on God on Earth. In addition to summarizing that...
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The Start of the “Moral Philosophy” and Its Historical Context
At some indeterminate time but before late 1894 Solov’ëv abandoned the idea of preparing a second edition of his Critique of Abstract Principles and started work on an entirely new ethical treatise that would ref...
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Death and Legacy
Solov’ëv’s health deteriorated rapidly in the summer of 1900, and his premature death surprised his friends. The many obituaries in the press that stemmed from extra-philosophical communities were full of prai...
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Morality vis-à-vis Law, Economics, and War
In this chapter, we look first at several prominent nineteenth-century Russian legal philosophies including those of Shershenevich and Chicherin, with whom Solov’ëv would squabble in conjunction with their opi...
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A Philosophical Interregnum
This chapter starts with an overview of the contentious issue of the demarcation of Solov’ëv’s intellectual development into distinct periods. For the purposes of this study, there are three, the second of whi...
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A Perspective on the History of Philosophy
This chapter is a presentation of Solov’ëv’s views of various figures and movements in the history of philosophy. The appearance of successive volumes of the Brockhaus-Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, of which he s...
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Adumbrations of a Philosophical Aesthetics
We look in this chapter at the history of aesthetic philosophies in Russia prior to Solov’ëv’s emergence. Aesthetics was one of the first philosophical sub-disciplines to appear in Russia. Displaying no famili...
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The Final Philosophical Projects
Solov’ëv intended his brief “Conclusion” to the Justification to serve as a transition to his next major work on metaphysics and an ontologically-oriented epistemology. His sudden death prevented its completion, ...
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Morality in History, Theory, and Practice
We continue in this chapter our elucidation of Solov’ëv’s major ethical treatise the Justification of the Moral Good. In its central chapters, Solov’ëv considered utilitarianism as well as Kant’s ethical theory. ...
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Positivism in Late Tsarist Russia: Its Introduction, Penetration, and Diffusion
This chapter surveys the dissemination within Imperial Russia of positivism, principally of the French variety, which sought to dispel all traditional metaphysics associated with the quest for knowledge. With ...
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A Voyage of Discovery
In this chapter, we take a detailed look at Solov’ëv’s background in philosophy from adolescence to the defense of his magister’s thesis. In that thesis, Solov’ëv presents a unique though highly selective history...
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Towards an Integral Philosophy
With his return to Moscow, Solov’ëv soon became embroiled in academic politics, taking a stand opposite to that of his own father, and began to express his view of Russia’s destiny in world history, neither of...
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The Morality of a Critique
Heeding well-meaning and well-considered advice, Solov’ëv abandoned previous plans and embarked on a new work to serve as a doctoral dissertation. His Critique of Abstract Principles bears a superficial similarit...
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Critiques of the Critique
Although his doctoral defense was a far more tranquil affair than his earlier magister’s defense, Solov’ëv did address issues concerning the difference between philosophy and religion in his opening remarks. Here...
