Solovey

Philosophical system of V.Solovyov Solovyov was a 19th Century Russian Philosopher. His output aimed to be a comprehensive philosophical system. Slovyov had five main works. In his first major work,The Crisis of Western Philosophy (written when he was twenty-one), he argues against positivism and for moving away from a dichotomy of “speculative” (rationalist) and “empirical” knowledge in favourof a post-philosophical enquiry that would reconcile all notions of thought in a new transcendental whole. He carried on his attempted synthesis of rationalism, empiricism and mysticism inPhilosophical Principles of Integral Knowledge, and he turned to a study of ethics leading to a solidifying of his epistemology in Critique of Abstract Principles. In the later period of his life, he recast hisethics in The Justification of the Good and his epistemology in Theoretical Philosophy. Due to his conclusions there was an aspect of the divine or the discovery of an “all-encompassing spirit,” thesoundness of his arguments have often been called into question. For the same reason, and compounded by a tendency to express himself in theological and romantically nationalist language, he is alsooften dismissed as a mystic or fanatic.

The Crisis of Western Philosophy
This, Solovyov’s first major work, displays youthful enthusiasm, vision, optimism and a large measure of audacity. The bulkof the work is an excursion in the history of modern philosophy that attempts to substantiate and amplify Solovyov’s justly famous claims, made in the opening lines, that: (i) philosophy — purelytheoretical knowledge — has finished its development; (ii) philosophy in this sense is no longer will be maintained by anyone;

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accomplishments or results that this successor will utilize to resolve the problems that philosophy has unsuccessfully attempted to resolve. This work originally appeared during 1877 as a...