Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.
Background
- Born in
- Obukhiv
- Educated at
- Imperial University of St. Vladimir
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Trending topics shown first"The greater part of Eastern teachers of the Church, from Clement of Alexandria to Maximus the Confessor, were supporters of Apokatastasis, of universal salvation and resurrection. And this is characte…"
"In order to be able to go on living it is possible that the bankrupt peoples will have to enter on a new path of self-denial, by curbing their covetousness and putting a check on the indefinite expans…"
"It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it."
"I see myself immersed in the depths of human existence and standing in the face of the ineffable mystery of the world and of all that is. And in that situation, I am made poignantly and burningly awar…"
"A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Communism, or of a materialistic Capitalism, or indeed of a materialistic Socialism. The third wa…"
"What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world."
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1874
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