Synesis, v. 9, n. 1, p. 80-89, jan/jul 2017, ISSN 1984-6754 © Universidade Católica de Petrópolis, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 80 METAPHYSICS OF LOVE IN THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY OF NIKOLAY LOSSKY* ILYA SHMELEV  NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, RUSSIAN FEDERATION MARIIA RUBTCOVA  ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIAN FEDERATION OLEG PAVENKOV  SAINT PETERSBURG INSTITUTE OF FILM AND TELEVISION, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Abstract: This paper presents the analysis of the concept of love in the religious philosophy of Nikolay Lossky. According to Lossky love is the absolute value in itself, integrating the world of values in a single axiological system, and on the other side it is the main vital force that unites of the social world. His doctrine of love-agape can be reconstructed from the following philosophical works: Absolute Good (1944), Value and Existence (1931), Freedom of will (1927), God and suffering (1941), History of Russian philosophy (1951). The authors draw the conclusion that Lossky’s metaphysics of love describes in detail the ideal of goodness and love as the absolute positive values. Therefore, this kind of love is unattainable in the lives of people in the existing social world. This point opens the following discussion with Pitirim Sorokin. Keywords: Nikolay Lossky. Metaphysics of love. Concept of love. Russian religious philosophy.  Artigo recebido em 27/07/2016 e aprovado para publicação pelo Conselho Editorial em 08/02/2017.  National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail : shmelevilya@gmail.com.  St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. E-mail : infosoc1@yandex.ru.  Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media communication at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Film and Television, Russia. He got his Candidate (PhD) Degree in Philosophy in Leningrad State University, Russia in 2010. E-mail : nfosoc@bk.ru.