Nikolai berdyaev dostoevsky biography

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born at Kyiv in 1874 of an aristocratic family.
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and.
DOSTOIEVSKY has played a decisive part in my spiritual life.

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Dostoievsky: An Interpretation

The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) believed that the dawn of the twentieth century would bring an end to the old atheistic and positivistic worldview and the beginning of a new era of the spirit. His philosophy goes beyond mere rational conceptualization and tries to attain authentic life itself: the profound layers of existence in contact with the divine world. He directed all his efforts-philosophical as well as in his personal and public life-at replacing the kingdom of this world with the kingdom of God. According to him, we can all attempt this by tapping the divine creative powers that constitute our true nature. Our mission is to be collaborators with God in His continuing creation of the world.

"So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world." This is Nikolai Berdyaev's assessment of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), the great Russian novelist, religious thinker, and prophet. Berdyaev's aim in this book is t

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Nikolai Berdyaev

Born

in Kyiv, Ukraine

March 18, 1874

Died

March 24, 1948

Website

http://www.berdyaev.com/

Genre

Philosophy, Religion

Influences

Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frederich Nietzsche...more

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born at Kyiv in 1874 of an aristocratic family. He commenced his education in a military school and subsequently entered the University of Kiev. There he accepted Marxism and took part in political agitation, for which he was expelled. At twenty-five he was exiled from Kiev to the north of Russia and narrowly escaped a second period of exile shortly before the Revolution. Before this, however, he had broken with Marxism in company with Sergius Bulgakov, and in 1909 he contributed to a symposium which reaffirmed the values of Orthodox Christianity. After the October Revolution he was appointed by the Bolshevists to a chair of philosophy in the University of

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Dostoievsky: An Interpretation

NICHOLAS ALEXANDROVITCH BERDYAEV (1874-1948) was a Russian political and Christian religious philosopher who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. He published his first book, Subjectivism and Individualism in Social Philosophy, at the age of 26 and became one of the most prolific and widely read contemporary Russian writers. Born at Obukhiv, Kiev Governorate in 1874 into an aristocratic military family, Berdyaev attended Kiev University in 1894, but was expelled when he became a Marxist and was arrested at a student demonstration. In 1897 his involvement in illegal activities led to three years of internal exile to Vologda. He married Lydia Yudifovna Trusheff in 1904 and the couple moved to Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital and centre of intellectual and revolutionary activity. Having criticized the erastianism of the Governing Synod of the Orthodox Church in his country, he was again threatened with banishment just before the fall of the imperial government. After the revolution, he beca