PLATO IN V. S. SOLOVYEV’SPHILOSOPHY IN THE 1870-S

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to critically explore conceptual and historical backgrounds of the assessment of Plato’s intellectual heritage given by V. S. Solovyov during the fi rst decade of his activity as philosopher and university lecturer. Within the scope of investigation are included lectures on the history of ancient philosophy delivered by him in the 1870s, as well as some of his theoretical works of the same period. Author shows that Solovyov’s platonic studies were inspired partly by ideas of European romanticism, but mainly by philosophical program of German idealism. On the other hand platonic doctrine of ideas was used by Solovyov to support his own project of the new metaphysics and early version of the philosophy of unitotality

Keywords

• metaphysics
• doctrine of ideas
• unititality
• German idealism
• intellectual intuition
• dialectics