#Nikolai Berdyaev

[philosophybits]

Pure truth could burst the world apart.

Nikolai Berdyaev, The Spirit and Reality

[usefulquotes7]

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. Nikolai Berdyaev, The Divine and the Human

[anarchistin]

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are.

Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.

– Nikolai Berdyaev

[mintymarill]

The range of Berdyaev’s work is remarkable, as can be seen in the collection Christian Existentialism, a pastiche of his writings on numerous subjects. His primary thesis, to which he returned time and again in his writings, is that the modern world (communist and capitalist alike) objectifies everything, quantifying and therefore separating us from all objects. The path of gnosis is the path of overcoming this disastrous and destructive dualism between subject and object that is at the root of evil.

Versluis, A. (2007). Magic and mysticism- An introduction to Western Esotericism

[nando161mando]

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

[filmcentury]

Man’s fate is a mystery, not to be unraveled within the small section of eternal life which we call man’s earthly, empirical life. The destiny of every man is immersed in eternity, and in eternity the deciphering of its meaning is to be sought. Within the limits of our brief life, everything appears accidental, meaningless and unjust. But everything takes on meaning and finds justification in eternity.

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948) Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist, in The Philosophy of Inequality (1923)

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Nikolai Berdyaev and Eschatological Providentialism  

Monday 18 March 2024 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March, Old Style 06 March, 1874 – 24 March 1948), who was born in Obukhov, near Kiev, on this date in 1874.

Berdyaev was a Russian aristocrat who became a Marxist and then a Christian, and who always seemed to find himself on the wrong side of the authorities in his homeland. Berdyaev applied his Christian personalism to philosophical anthropology and produced a philosophy of history that raises eschatology over salvation history. Like the thought of Simone Weil, this is a providential philosophy of history with a difference.

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Text post: https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/nikolai-alexandrovich-berdyaev

[3cosmicfrogs]

I'm tutoring an Introduction To Biology course for first-year uni students and on their homework assignment someone literally cited their answer with "own knowledge" like ok nikolai berdyaev

[philosophybits]

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Nikolai Berdyaev, The Divine and the Human

[heckyeahgnome]

Crypto-academia

“How did you know that? You didn’t cite a source or any specific research”

“I… don’t know; it came to me in a dream.”

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[embeccy]

"In a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history with its empires, its wars and revolutions, its blossoming and fading civilizations."

- Nikolai Berdyaev

[palmiz]

"Viviamo in un incubo di falsità, e sono pochi che sono abbastanza svegli e consapevoli per vedere le cose come sono. Il nostro primo dovere è eliminare le illusioni e recuperare il senso della realtà. ”

Nikolai Berdyaev

[89rooms]

We do not know why we love a person; we love for no reason. One cannot love a man for his merits; and in this respect love is like grace which is given freely, not for merits, for nothing. Love is a gracious radiating energy.

Nikolai Berdyaev - 'The Destiny of Man'

[nando161mando]

"We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realization.

Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonising problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realization?"

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Text on the banner in the image reads:

“You are in rebel Zapatista territory. Here the people command and the government obey.”

[kagittankayik]

Gerçek şudur ki ,sanat simgeseldir ;iki dünya arasına kurulmuş bir köprüdür ;derin hakiki bir geçeği dile getiren bir belirtidir.Sanatın amacıdeneysel gerçeğin üstüne çıkarak gizli duran gerçeği ,doğrudan doğruya degilde yansıtılmış gölgelerle dile getirmektir.Doğrusu dostoyevski kadar deneysel dünya ile ugraşan olmamıştır;sanatı baştan başa manevi dünaynın bu derin gerçeğine devinir…

Nikolay Berdyaev.

[thedarkacademiastuff]

They have no right to speak for freedom, who recognize freedom only for themselves and their friends.

- Nikolai Berdyaev