Do you know who is Nikolai Berdyaev ?
I had some spare time today, this gave me a chance to read some philosophy and tracked me back on this very interesting philosopher that was born 100 years before me and died on the year my mother was born. A couple of my friends in Serbia are big funs of his thoughts, esecially those about freedom. Bredjaev is getting more and more “attention” in Europe . His philosophy was controversial for his time and this kept him away from popular and not censored colleges.There is a whole array of reasons to “check him out” , I will quote only a few here:
In reality, freedom is aristocratic, not democratic. With sorrow we must recognize the fact that freedom is dear only to those men who think creatively. It is not very necessary to those who do not value thinking. In the so-called democracies, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, a considerable proportion of the people are those who have not yet become conscious of themselves as free beings, bearing within themselves the dignity of freedom. Education to freedom is something still ahead of us, and this will not be achieved in a hurry. (SC, 110)
The worth of man is the personality within him. Human worth consists solely in personality. (SF, 27)
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy. (SF, 66)
Nikolai Berdyaev
1874 - 1948
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