Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov Biography
About the author Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev - Russian poet, prose writer, mystic, religious thinker, publicist, literary critic, teacher. Born on January 16, in Moscow, in the family of historian Sergei Solovyov. The cousin of Vladimir was a famous Ukrainian philosopher and writer Grigory Skovoroda. The life path received education in the first and fifth Moscow gymnasiums, then entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, but soon transferred to the Physics and Mathematics faculty.
He graduated from the History and Philology extermine, and passed tests for the degree of candidate. After graduation, he remained at the Department of Philosophy, preparing to receive the title of professor. In the year he listened to lectures at the Sergiev Posad Theological Academy.
A year later, he defended the work of the “Crisis of Western Philosophy”, gave lectures at Moscow University in the rank of full -time associate professor of philosophy. In the year he went to London, on a business trip. Here Soloviev became interested in spiritualism, studied Kabbalah. In the fall of the same year, he suddenly leaves for Egypt - to Alexandria and Cairo, simultaneously visiting France and Italy.
Upon returning to Moscow, he again teaches at the university, but soon quit due to disagreements with the leadership. He moves to St. Petersburg, joins the scientific committee at the Ministry of Education, teaches at the capital's university. Get acquainted with Dostoevsky. During this period, Solovyov’s philosophical views are finally formed. In the year he defended his doctoral dissertation "Criticism of abstract principles." He defended the tsareubians of Alexander II in the name of Christian mercy, for which he was persecuted - Solovyov was banned from reading public lectures, and after the writer had to complete the university career and leave teaching.
He died on July 31 in the Narrow Estate. The philosophical views of Solovyov’s views are the idea of Sofia - the soul of the world, a certain mystical being, which unites God with the world of people. This is eternal femininity in God and the purpose of God about the world. Solovyov’s views on art as the embodiment of an absolute ideal had a great influence on the representatives of the “spiritual revival” of the beginning of the 20th century, as well as on symbolist poets, in particular on Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok.
Soloviev’s works today are of considerable interest not only for professionals, but also for readers who want to comprehend the philosophy of art: “Beauty as a transforming power”; “Apology of Socrates. Protagor "; "The meaning of love." Soloviev criticized the postulate that the artist should create mirages. In his opinion, the task of art is “the preset of our reality”.
The views of the philosopher were reflected in the work of Russian modernists, as well as in some works of Fedor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Similar authors.