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The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy
Оправдание добра. Нравственная философия

His great treatise on ethics, published in 1897 and reissued in enlarged form in 1899. It starts from three primary data of moral consciousness — shame, pity and reverence, which govern the relation to what is lower, to equals and to what is higher — and builds from them an ethics autonomous with respect to positive religion that nevertheless leads to the absolute good. The second part applies the principle to the person, the nation, law, economics, war and capital punishment.
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English

The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy
William B. Eerdmans, 2005
Translation: Natalie A. Duddington (ed. Boris Jakim)
ISBN 9780802828637
Traducción de 1918 revisada
Русский
Vladimir Solovyov
Оправдание добра. Нравственная философия
The Conscious LibraryОправдание добра. Нравственная философия
San Petersburgo, 1897
Primera edición; 2.ª ed. revisada, Moscú, 1899

Оправдание добра
Respublika, Moscú, 1996
ISBN 5250025102
Introducción de A. N. Golubev y L. V. Konoválova
Deutsch
Vladimir Solovyov
Die Rechtfertigung des Guten
The Conscious LibraryDie Rechtfertigung des Guten
Erich Wewel, 1976
ISBN 3879040443
Français
Vladimir Solovyov
La justification du bien
The Conscious LibraryLa justification du bien
Slatkine, 1997
ISBN 9782051015332
Polski
Vladimir Solovyov
Uzasadnienie dobra
The Conscious LibraryUzasadnienie dobra
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2008
Translation: Paweł Rojek et al.
ISBN 9788323321644
Español

La justificación del bien. Ensayo de filosofía moral
Ediciones Sígueme (Hermeneia, 95), 2012
Translation: José María Vegas
ISBN 9788430118069
Introducción e índices de Francisco José López Sáez; encuadernación en tela, agotada
Vladimir Solovyov
La justificación del Bien. Ensayo de filosofía moral
The Conscious LibraryLa justificación del Bien. Ensayo de filosofía moral
Ediciones Sígueme (Hermeneia, 95), 2025
Translation: José María Vegas
ISBN 9788430122837
2.ª edición, rústica (diciembre de 2025)
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 Meaning of Love · 1894
- 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
- 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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