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<p>This article examines Lev Karsavin’s first major philosophical work, <i>Noctes Petropolitanae</i> (1922). In his searching study of the reality of human and divine love, he does not propose to write an academic treatise <i>per se</i>, but only to proffer a <i>lived</i> metaphysics of love, grasping this fundamental realty “from within” and not “from without,” empirically or rationally speaking. Only by personally experiencing love can one know what love is. Initially, it presents itself as an essential biunity of a lover with his or her beloved. But in this experience of biunity, a real <i>triunity</i> comes to the fore—lover, beloved, and <i>love</i> itself. <i>Being</i> in love, for its part, demands the <i>reality</i> itself of love, earthly reality ultimately revealing divine love, <i>Love</i> in the Person of the Godhead. God is Love, in other words, meaning that God’s Being as Love is equally the foundation of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the cosmic order. In sum, there can be no cognition of the transcendental properties of being without love.</p>

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The metaphysics of all-embracing unity of Lev P. Karsavin: a paean to love

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    2025年4月10日

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  • Robert F. Slesinski

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This article examines Lev Karsavin’s first major philosophical work, Noctes Petropolitanae (1922). In his searching study of the reality of human and divine love, he does not propose to write an academic treatise per se, but only to proffer a lived metaphysics of love, grasping this fundamental realty “from within” and not “from without,” empirically or rationally speaking. Only by personally experiencing love can one know what love is. Initially, it presents itself as an essential biunity of a lover with his or her beloved. But in this experience of biunity, a real triunity comes to the fore—lover, beloved, and love itself. Being in love, for its part, demands the reality itself of love, earthly reality ultimately revealing divine love, Love in the Person of the Godhead. God is Love, in other words, meaning that God’s Being as Love is equally the foundation of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the cosmic order. In sum, there can be no cognition of the transcendental properties of being without love.