The Meaning of History
History does not have an end in itself; rather, the end lies outside it, in eternity. It is, as could be expected from Berdyaev, a Christian vision of history, which is nothing more than an eon within the...
History does not have an end in itself; rather, the end lies outside it, in eternity. It is, as could be expected from Berdyaev, a Christian vision of history, which is nothing more than an eon within the...
Berdyaev was a Marxist and, when writing this work, retained some respect for his old teacher Marx: in fact, he dedicates it to him. Perhaps for that reason, he acknowledges the existence of class struggle...
For Berdyaev, the problem with communism is that it seeks to become a new religion with unassailable dogmas—therefore implacable in its repression of "heresy"—and whose main article of faith would be Marx’s...