Episode #10: No System Can Contain the Soul: On Freedom, the Creative Act, and the Person — Nikolai Berdyaev

Episode #10: No System Can Contain the Soul: On Freedom, the Creative Act, and the Person — Nikolai Berdyaev

From Subversive Orthodoxy by Travis Mullen

July 11, 2025 · 49 min · Season 1 · Episode 10

About this episode

Nikolai Berdyaev discusses his vision of freedom rooted in Orthodox Christianity, critiquing both Marxism and bourgeois liberalism.

Nikolai Berdyaev challenges both Marxism and bourgeois liberalism with his prophetic vision of freedom rooted in Orthodox Christianity, not in political centrism. • Exiled Russian philosopher who viewed freedom as cosmic and primordial—the very ground of human existence • Criticized the "bourgeois spirit" as a degrading clutching after security and small-mindedness • Rejected institutional religion and revolutionary violence equally • Believed human beings are co-creators with God, called to...

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Host: Travis Mullen

Guest: Nikolai Berdyaev

Topics covered

  • freedom
  • philosophy
  • Orthodox Christianity
  • creativity
  • human existence

Keywords

  • freedom
  • Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Orthodox Christianity
  • Marxism
  • bourgeois liberalism
  • creativity
  • human existence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orthodox Christianity, Marxism, bourgeois liberalism

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