An ideal and real person in the work of N.A. Berdyaev

Annotation

The article analyzes the features of N. A. Berdyaev’s religious and philosophical anthropology through the prism of the concepts of “real person” (subject) and “individual person” (object among objects, thing among things). Berdyaev’s views are based on the personalistic aspect: a personality is a person who has the strength and potential to overcome his own objectivity through the expedient and effective use of his own free and creative potential. Creativity is a genuine way of spiritual improvement of a person on the way to achieving an ideal state. None of the people can be called an “ideal person” due to the evaluative nature of the concept, the anthropological ideal can be achieved in an eschatological perspective. But throughout life, a person should strive for an ideal based on the disclosure of freedom, creative and ascetic potential rooted in the Divine principle.

Keywords

N. A. Berdyaev, anthropology, real man, ideal man, freedom, creativity, austerity, deification, conciliarity.

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