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In the second part Solovyov discusses the practical implications of Christian goodness for such areas as nationalism, war, economics, legal justice, and family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Justification of the Good\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces the English edition of 1918 and is the only new publication of this work since that date. The book includes explanatory footnotes by esteemed scholar Boris Jakim and a bibliography, compiled by Jakim, of Solovyov's major philosophical and religious works.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter passing through deism, pantheism, and sundry atheistic visions of life, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible conviction and uncommon genius. \"The Justification of the Good,\" one of Solovyov's last and most mature works, presents a profound argument for human morality based on the world's longing for and participation in God's goodness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of the book Solovyov explores humanity's inner virtues and their full reality in Christ, weaving his moral philosophy with threads drawn from Orthodox theology. In the second part Solovyov discusses the practical implications of Christian goodness for such areas as nationalism, war, economics, legal justice, and family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \"The Justification of the Good\" reproduces the English edition of 1918 and is the only new publication of this work since that date. 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Love is important, not only as one of our feelings but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our lives....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The meaning of human love, speaking generally, is the justification and salvation of individuality through the sacrifice of egoism. On this general basis we can also ... explain the meaning of sexual love\" (Vladimir Solovyov) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the meaning of love's intense emotion? Solovyov points to the spark of divinity that we see in another human being and shows how this \"living ideal of Divine love, antecedent to our love, contains in itself the secret of the idealization of our love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Solovyov, love between men and women has a key role to play in the mystical transfiguration of the world. Love, which allows one person to find unconditional completion in another, becomes an evolutionary strategy for overcoming cosmic disintegration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377601249503,"sku":"9780940262188","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KM_tj2d-iq9780940262188.webp?v=1789236162"},{"product_id":"war-progress-and-the-end-of-history-three-conversations-including-a-short-story-of-the-anti-christ-paperback","title":"War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, Including a Short Story of the Anti-Christ - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Is \u003ci\u003eevil\u003c\/i\u003e only a natural \u003ci\u003edefect, \u003c\/i\u003e an imperfection disappearing by itself with the growth of good, or is it a real \u003ci\u003epower, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eruling\u003c\/i\u003e our world by means of temptations, so that, to fight it successfully, assistance must be found in another sphere of being? This vital question can be fully examined and solved only in a complete system of metaphysics.\" -- \u003cb\u003eVladimir Solovyov\u003c\/b\u003e (preface)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as progress races to end history is the resistance to evil. Solovyov addresses what seem to him the three main trends of our time: economic materialism, Tolstoyan abstract moralism, and Nietzschean hubris--the first is already present, the second imminent, while the last is the apocalyptic precursor of the Antichrist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In War, Progress, and the End of History: Three Conversations, \u003c\/i\u003e Solovyov remained faithful to his belief in the final triumph of true Christianity, but he made a detour through the vast deserts of time under the control of the Prince of This World. 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