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The Meaning of Love
Смысл любви
Five articles published in Questions of Philosophy and Psychology between 1892 and 1894. It denies that sexual love serves only the species: its meaning is to overcome egoism by recognising in another the absolute value each attributes to himself, and so restore the image of God in the human being. The union of man and woman foreshadows 'syzygy', the reunion of all creation with God, and the victory over death. It is his most read text outside Russia.
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English
The Meaning of Love
Lindisfarne Press, 1995
Translation: Jane Marshall, rev. Thomas R. Beyer Jr.
ISBN 9780940262188
Introducción de Owen Barfield
Русский
Vladimir Solovyov
Смысл любви
The Conscious LibraryСмысл любви
Вопросы философии и психологии, 1892
Primera publicación (1892–1894)
Смысл любви. Избранные произведения
Sovremennik, Moscú, 1991
ISBN 5270013703
Edición de N. I. Tsimbáyev
Français
Vladimir Solovyov
Le sens de l'amour
The Conscious LibraryLe sens de l'amour
O.E.I.L., 1985
Translation: B. Marchadier
ISBN 2868390528
Introducción de F. Rouleau
Español
El significado del amor
Monte Carmelo, 2010
ISBN 9788483532409
Other works by Vladimir Solovyov
- The Mythological Process in Ancient Paganism · 1873
- The Crisis of Western Philosophy (Against the Positivists) · 1874
- Auguste Comte's Theory of the Three Phases in the Intellectual Development of Mankind · 1874
- On the Philosophical Works of P. D. Yurkevich · 1874
- A Strange Misunderstanding (Reply to Mr Lesevich) · 1874
- Metaphysics and Positive Science · 1875
- On the Reality of the External World and the Foundation of Metaphysical Knowledge (Reply to Kavelin) · 1875
- La Sophia · 1876
- The Three Forces · 1877
- The Philosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge · 1877
- Lectures on Godmanhood · 1878
- Critique of Abstract Principles · 1880
- The Historical Deeds of Philosophy · 1880
- Three Speeches in Memory of Dostoevsky · 1883
- A Note in Defence of Dostoevsky against the Charge of a 'New' Christianity · 1883
- On Spiritual Authority in Russia · 1881
- On the Schism in the Russian People and Society · 1882
- The Spiritual Foundations of Life · 1884
- The Great Controversy and Christian Politics · 1883
- Jewry and the Christian Question · 1884
- Love for the People and the Russian National Ideal (Open Letter to I. S. Aksakov) · 1884
- Russia and Europe. Reply to N. Ya. Danilevsky · 1888
- How to Awaken Our Church Forces? (Open Letter to S. A. Rachinsky) · 1885
- The Israel of the New Testament · 1885
- The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Introduction to the Russian Edition of the Didache) · 1886
- The Dogmatic Development of the Church in Connection with the Question of Church Reunion · 1886
- The History and Future of Theocracy · 1887
- The Russian Idea · 1888
- Russia and the Universal Church · 1889
- The National Question in Russia · 1891
- Beauty in Nature · 1889
- The General Meaning of Art · 1890
- China and Europe · 1890
- On Lyric Poetry · 1890
- The Illusion of Poetic Creation · 1890
- On the Decline of the Medieval Worldview · 1891
- Idols and Ideals · 1891
- From the Philosophy of History · 1891
- The People's Calamity and Social Aid · 1891
- Our Sins and Our Duty · 1891
- The Enemy from the East · 1892
- A Note on H. P. Blavatsky · 1892
- The Buddhist Mood in Poetry · 1894
- A First Step towards a Positive Aesthetics · 1894
- The Poetry of F. I. Tyutchev · 1895
- Byzantinism and Russia · 1896
- Muhammad: His Life and Religious Teaching · 1896
- When Did the Hebrew Prophets Live? · 1896
- Law and Morality: Essays in Applied Ethics · 1897
- The Fate of Pushkin · 1897
- The Concept of God (In Defence of Spinoza's Philosophy) · 1897
- The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy · 1897
- Theoretical Philosophy · 1899
- The Life Drama of Plato · 1898
- Mickiewicz · 1898
- The Mystery of Progress · 1898
- The Idea of the Superman · 1899
- Lermontov · 1899
- The Meaning of Poetry in Pushkin's Verse · 1899
- Sunday and Holiday Letters · 1898
- Three Conversations on War, Progress and the End of World History, Including a Short Tale of the Antichrist · 1900
- Last Lecture at St Petersburg University (1882) · 1882
- Obituaries · 1900
- Articles in the Brockhaus–Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary · 1900
- Poems · 1891
- Three Meetings · 1898
- Pan-Mongolism · 1894
- Ex oriente lux · 1890
- The Burning Bush · 1891
- Dear Friend, Do You Not See…? · 1892
- Das Ewig-Weibliche: A Word of Admonition to the Sea Devils · 1898
- The Dragon (To Siegfried) · 1900
- The White Lily, or A Dream on the Night of the Protection · 1880
- The Works of Plato (translation) · 1899
- Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (translation) · 1889
- Hoffmann's The Golden Pot (translation)
- Letters · 1908
- Collected Works · 1901
Sources
- «Соловьёв, Владимир Сергеевич». Wikipedia en ruso (biografía, relación de obras con enlaces a las ediciones digitales).
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