The wholeofthe secondpart of Logic, theDoctrineofEssential Being, is a discussion of the intrinsic and self-affirming unity of immediacy and mediation.
In the section called Aglaea, for the goddess of beauty, the author champions the essential, intrinsic value of art a subject he addresses with passion.
Patriarch Kirill has described the punk performance as blasphemous and part of a broader attack on the church, which is considered by many Russians essential to their national identity and an intrinsic part of a powerful state.