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The religious philosophy offered in Vladimir Solovyov’s writings is the fruit of a wide-ranging and particularly ambitious enquiry concerning human goals, creativity and values. This enquiry was undertaken by a man singularly well versed in Biblical studies, in Church history, West European philosophy, Platonism, Neo-Platonism, and in the mystical literature of various religious Traditions. His vast erudition was supported by a strong conviction that his work in these major fields would yield beneficial and important results. He valued both mystical apprehension and rational thought as means of acquiring knowledge, while prophetic insight and mystical visions (when accompanied by the requisite degree of moral preparation and discipline) also found a place in his scheme. His writings testify that he regarded Christianity as the truest and most complete revelation of the nature of God and of His Will that men have received, a revelation that affirms the reality of God’s intimate relationship with His creation and that fully provides for human freedom.
Knowledge of what one ought to do presupposes a knowledge of what one is.
Vladimir Solovyov
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See Paul Hayner’s Reason and Existence: Schelling’s Philosophy of History (1967) and Solovyov’s Lectures on Godmanhood.
Lev Shestov, ‘Umozrenie i apokalipsis — Religioznaya filosofiya Vl Solovyova’ in Umozrenie i otkrovenie, (Paris: YMCA Press 1964) pp. 25–91.
See also George Kline’s article ‘Spot o religioznoy filosofii: L. Shestov protiv V. Solovyova’ in the collection of articles entitled Russkaya religiozno-filosofskaya mysl’ XX veka, (edited and introduced by Nikolai P. Poltoratsky, University of Pittsburgh, Slavic Series no. 2, 1975) pp. 37–53.
For Lev Shestov (1866–1938), see the Shestov Bibliography published by the Institut d’Etudes Slaves in Paris (1975);
the two-volume biography by N. Baranova-Shestova, Zhizn’ L’va Shestova, (Paris: La Presse Libre, 1983);
Czeslaw Milosz, ‘Shestov or the Purity of Despair’ in Milosz’s collection of essays Emperor of the Earth — Modes of Eccentric Vision (University of California Press, 1977) pp. 99–119.
See also: G. Andreyev, ‘V poiskakh poslednikh otvetov’ (on Lev Shestov), in the Paris-based weekly newspaper Russkaya Mysl’ (Apr./May 1986) nos. 3618, 3619 & 3620.
See also: N. Prutskov, ‘Dostoevsky i Vladimir Solovyov: “Velikiy Inkvizitor” i “Antikhrist’” in Russkaya Literatura 1870–1890 godov, (Sbornik 5), (Sverdlovsk, 1973) pp. 51–78.
Czeslaw Milosz, ‘Science Fiction and the Coming of Antichrist’, (1971), in his Emperor of the Earth — Modes of Eccentric Vision, (University of California Press, 1977) pp. 15–31.
Professor Shcherbatsky’s most widely known works are: The Central Conception of Buddhism, and the Meaning of the word ‘Dharma’, (London, 1923),
Conception of Buddhist Nirvāna, (Leningrad, 1927),
and Buddhist Logic (Leningrad, 1930–32).
See Shcherbatsky, Conception of Buddhist Nirvāna (Leningrad, 1927),
T. R. V. Murti, The Central Philosophy of Buddhism (London, 1955),
and K. Venkata Ramanan, Nāgārjuna’s Philosophy (Japan, 1966).
T. R. V. Murti, The Central Philosophy of Buddhism (London, 1955, reprinted in 1980) pp. 44–9.
Note the point made by Pratima Bowes in her book The Hindu Religious Tradition (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977):
K. Venkata Ramanan, Nāgārjuna’s Philosophy (first edition 1966; references here are to the Delhi edition, published by Motilal Banarsidass in 1978) p. 274.
Th. Stcherbatsky, Conception of Buddhist Nirvāna (Delhi, 1975 edition) p. 45.
Dmitry Stremoukhov, Vladimir Soloviev et son Oeuvre Messianique, Université de Strasbourg, 1935, p. 117:
This fine study has been translated into English by Elizabeth Meyendorff, Vladimir Soloviev and His Messianic Work (Massachusetts: Nordland Books, 1980).
Prince Evgeniy Trubetskoy, The Worldviezv of Vladimir Solovyov, (Mirosozertsanie Vladimira Solovyova), (Moscow, 1913) vol. I, p. 514: ‘Na teokraticheskogo tsarya on vozlagaet takie nadezhdy, po sravneniyu s kotorymi slavyanofil’skie mechtaniya mogut pokazat’sya skromnymi.’
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Sutton, J. (1988). Justification of the Good: Goal and Precept. In: The Religious Philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. Library of Philosophy and Religion . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19422-3_6
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