{"id":1729,"date":"2013-11-28T17:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T22:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2013-11-28T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T22:52:32","slug":"the-meaning-of-dostoevskys-beauty-will-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/the-meaning-of-dostoevskys-beauty-will-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Dostoevsky&#8217;s &#8220;Beauty Will Save the World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Vladimir Soloviev<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/soloviev.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/soloviev.png\" alt=\"Vladimir Soloviev\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1733\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir Soloviev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cBeauty will save the world\u201d \u2015 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot<\/p>\n<p>Dostoevsky not only preached, but, to a certain degree also demonstrated in his own activity this reunification of concerns common to humanity\u2013at least of the highest among these concerns\u2013in one Christian idea. <\/p>\n<p>Being a religious person, he was at the same time a free thinker and a powerful artist. These three aspects , these three higher concerns were not differentiated in him and did not exclude one another, but entered indivisibly into all his activity. In his convictions he never separated truth from good and beauty; in his artistic creativity he never placed beauty apart from the good and the true. <\/p>\n<p>And he was right, because these three live only in their unity. The good, taken separately from truth and beauty, is only an indistinct feeling, a powerless upwelling; truth taken abstractly is an empty word; and beauty without truth and the good is an idol. For Dostoevsky, these were three inseparable forms of one absolute Idea. <\/p>\n<p>The infinity of the human soul\u2013having been revealed in Christ and capable of fitting into itself all the boundlessness of divinity\u2013is at one and the same time both the greatest good, the highest truth, and the most perfect beauty. <\/p>\n<p>Truth is good, perceived by the human mind; beauty is the same good and the same truth, corporeally embodied in solid living form. <\/p>\n<p>And its full embodiment\u2013the end, the goal, and the perfection\u2013already exists in everything, and this is why Dostoevsky said that beauty will save the world.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mindyourmaker.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/28\/soloviev-the-meaning-of-dostoevskys-beauty-will-save-the-world\/\">Mind Your Maker<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 1em 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/divider-2.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Pelicans&#8221; (detail) painted by Michael Moukios. Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pelicans-large.png\" title=\"PELICANS Painting by Michael Moukios\" alt=\"PELICANS Painting by Michael Moukios\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: solid 10px #f5f5f5;\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pelicans-2.png\" alt=\"pelicans-2\" width=\"1060\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pelicans-2.png 1060w, https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pelicans-2-768x330.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vladimir Soloviev \u201cBeauty will save the world\u201d \u2015 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Dostoevsky not only preached, but, to a certain degree also demonstrated in his own activity this reunification of concerns common to humanity\u2013at least of the highest among these concerns\u2013in one Christian idea. Being a religious person, he was at the same time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}