Berdyaev’s Philosophy of History
An Existentialist Theory of Social Creativity and Eschatology
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Now that I have made a close analysis of Berdyaev’s text, I shall draw the threads of my findings together. Philosophy for him has revealed itself as a typically Eastern Christian doctrine. That is, philosophy...
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We saw in Chapter I that the principle of philosophy of history, for Berdyaev, is Christ, Godmanhood. We observed, too, that the free will of man figures importantly. By studying Berdyaev’s doctrine of Godmanh...
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We saw in the foregoing chapter that there is a historical process in the human personality ; at one state it is mainly sub-conscious, at another state, mainly conscious, at another, mainly supra-conscious. A ...
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We begin this study by considering Berdyaev’s philosophy of history as a complete doctrine. But his philosophy 1 partakes of the great complexity of early zgth-century German philosophy. Numerous questions must o...
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I seek in this chapter to discover the way in which Berdyaev’s Existentialism fulfills a need in his philosophy of history. What relation does his Existentialism have to his doctrine of the “historical?” In th...