Tatyana Byrdina

The article examines a number of major writings of V.Solovyov, a Silver Age philosopher, focusing on his understanding of the universalia problem. The conclusion made is that the Russian scholar was primarily inspired by the general ideas as the archetypes of the universe, as the embryoes of material things. The general is by no means a pure abstraction for him. Moreover, his subtle understanding of the general as part of Schelling and Hegel's objective idealism has led Solovyov to the principles of absolute unity, integral knowledge, synthesis, universalism to be applied to the interpretation of both spiritual existence and material reality