The problem of religious meaning in Nikolai Berdyaev’s lectures
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent28.01.138Keywords:
Berdyaev, meaning of life, love, theocentricism, christocentricism, pnevmacentricism, creative eschatologismAbstract
The article deals with the problem of the religious meaning of human life in Berdyaev's philosophy, not yet studied in the research literature. The topic of meaning is considered as arising at a certain stage of Berdyaev's spiritual evolution. The essence of Berdyaev's solution of the problem of meaning consists in God-human character of the source of meaning. Finding of meaning is connected with spiritual awakening of human being. The meaning reveals itself as the energy of love. Berdyaev, exposing the insufficiency of extremes of pessimistic and optimistic assessment of life, comes to the position of creative Eschatologism.
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Berdyaev, N. A. (1935-1936b). The main problems of philosophy as knowledge of the meaning of life, & Types of spiritual life. [In Russian]. N. Berdyaev’s Archive (f. 1496, op. 1, storage unit 68). RGALI, Moscow.
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