Boldareva Viktoriia

The Way to Personalism: Philosophy of Lev Shestov as a Catalyst for ''Re-evaluation of Everything'' in Berdyaev Early Thought

Abstract

The article deals withan unexplored episode of Berdyaev’s philosophical thought, namely the case of his changing views at the beginning of 1900s when he rejected Neo-Kantianism and converted to his first version of existentialistic and personalistic worldview. In the first part of the article the author focuses on the logic of “re-evaluation of everything” (the expression that Berdyaev himself used) putting forward a hypothesis that this “re-evaluation” was induced by the ideas of Lev Shestov and can be understood as a personal religious conversion. The second part focuses on how the “paradigm shift” in Berdyaev’s anthropological philosophy entailed «paradigm shifts» in his philosophy of religion and theological thought, since it was one of the first emergences of this typical phenomenon of the tendency significant for the 20th century theology to be formed under the influence of anthropological philosophy terms and concepts.

Keywords

Berdyaev, Shestov, Personalism, Existentialism, Religious Conversion, History of Russian Philosophy, Theology, Anthropological Philosophy.

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Boldareva Viktoriia

Place of work: St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities 6/1 Likhov pereulok, Moscow 127051, Russian Federation;
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