War and Christianity From the Russian Point of View: Three Conversations (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from War and Christianity From the Russian Point of View: Three Conversations

The young man's distinctive tone In thought was Opposition to positivism, humanitarianism and the ideas of Western civilisation, and throughout his student days he propounded in many arguments a lively belief in Russia and the Russian idea, in orthodoxy and mysticism. But with all his brilliance he was also an industrious scholar. He graduated in 1873, and gave many Of the succeeding years of youth to research and study. He held a professorship for a short while, but gave up his chair in 1882, and the remaining eighteen years of his life were devoted almost entirely to literary work.

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Vladimir Solovyof, the author of this book, is Russia's greatest philosopher and one of the greatest of her poets, a serene and happy writer. He was bom in 1853 and died in 1901, that is, he flourished in Russia during the same years that Nietzsche lived in Germany. He was a seeker and also a seer, a thinker and also a singer. His life is not marked by irritability, and it did not culminate in mental and psychic collapse as did the life of Nietzsche. Probably life was easier for a man of genius in Russia than in Germany - there are wider spaces there, more freedom, more tenderness between man and man, less materialism, less selfishness, less to send one mad.

Solovyof came from a happy home and of a literary family. His father, Serge Mikhalovitch Solovyof, was a historian; his mother, a Little Russian of old family and culture, was proud to remind her children of a kinsman who had been a great philosopher in his day. At home there was an atmosphere of real things - never any of the cheap wit and vulgarism and mental meanness that so often sterilise the creative intelligence of otherwise wonderful children.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.