He wrote the essay "Smysl liubvi" (The meaning of love; 1892–1894) and the treatise on ethics
Opravdanie dobra (The justification of the good; 1894–1895); he proposed a new interpretation of the theory of knowledge in essays unified under the title
Pervoe nachalo teoreticheskoi filosofii (The first principle of theoretical philosophy; 1897–1899); and his last significant work,
Tri razgovora (Three conversations; 1899–1900), was devoted to the problem of evil. Excessive work and unsettled life ruined Solov'ëv's health, which had always been poor. He died near Moscow as a guest on the estate of his friends, the Princes Trubetskoi.
In his spiritual development, Solov'ëv experienced many influences that determined the orientation and character of his thought. In early youth he assimilated socialist ideas: the quest for social truth and faith in progress, which were characteristic for Russian thought and in fact for the nineteenth century in general. From the Slavophiles Solov'ëv assimilated the idea of "integral knowledge," which offered an answer to the question of the meaning of human existence, as well as to that of the goal of the cosmic and historical process. According to Solov'ëv the subject of this process is humanity as a single organism, a concept borrowed from Auguste Comte.
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