Different concepts of personality: Nikolaj Berdjaev and Sergej Bulgakov
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- Zwahlen, Regula Institut für Ökumenische Studien, Forschungsstelle Sergij Bulgakov, Universität Freiburg Schweiz, Fribourg, Switzerland
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2012
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- Studies in East European Thought. - Springer Netherlands. - 2012, vol. 64, no. 3-4, p. 183-204
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The main concern of both Berdjaev's and Bulgakov's philosophical strivings consists in developing a concept of the person as the foundation of human dignity and creativity within a Christian worldview. Once attracted by Marxism with its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, they started to struggle against Marxism's atheist materialism because of its lack of a concept of person. However, the same concern will lead both thinkers down very different paths with different consequences. This paper argues that, even though Berdjaev has become famous as a philosopher of the person and a herald of creative ethics, Bulgakov developed a more solid Christian justification of the same claims. Both systems are presented by means of comparing some crucial notions within their concepts of personality—potentiality, trinity and autonomy
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- RERO DOC 316489
- SWISSBIB (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11212-012-9168-0
- DOI 10.1007/s11212-012-9168-0
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