Beauty in the aesthetic writings of Vladimir Soloviev
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This article presents a synthesis of the thesis by Michelina Tenace, defended in 1991 at the Gregorian University under the direction of Father Thomas Spidlik, devoted to the notion of beauty in the aesthetic writings of Vladimir Soloviev (1889–1894). The study analyzes four major texts — *Beauty in Nature*, *The General Meaning of Art*, *A First Step Toward a Positive Aesthetics*, and *The Meaning of Love* — in light of the two founding concepts of Solovievian thought: All-Unity and Divine-Humanity. The central idea is that beauty in Soloviev constitutes not a mere object of philosophical aesthetics, but a genuine "theological locus": it attests to matter's capacity to manifest the spiritual and thereby reveals the eschatological meaning of history. The contribution of the article is to show that beauty, truth, and love form in Soloviev an inseparable unity, grounded in the Christological dogmas of the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the Transfiguration.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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