In Part Two of our Dostoevsky series we move from diagnosing the underground to exploring the way out. Dostoevsky shows us that the true hero is not the exceptional man but the good man, and goodness is only remarkable in its ability to love while knowing the depths of the underground. We explore how Father Zosima counsels the brokenhearted with hope that refuses to collapse into platitudes, and how his radical teaching—“I am responsible not only for myself, but for everyone else, and I...
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In Part Two of our Dostoevsky series we move from diagnosing the underground to exploring the way out. Dostoevsky shows us that the true hero is not the exceptional man but the good man, and goodness is only remarkable in its ability to love while knowing the depths of the underground. We explore how Father Zosima counsels the brokenhearted with hope that refuses to collapse into platitudes, and how his radical teaching—“I am responsible not only for myself, but for everyone else, and I...
Episode #10: No System Can Contain the Soul: On Freedom, the Creative Act, and the Person: Nikolai Berdyaev (part one)
Subversive Orthodoxy
48 minutes
4 months ago
Episode #10: No System Can Contain the Soul: On Freedom, the Creative Act, and the Person: Nikolai Berdyaev (part one)
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...
Subversive Orthodoxy
In Part Two of our Dostoevsky series we move from diagnosing the underground to exploring the way out. Dostoevsky shows us that the true hero is not the exceptional man but the good man, and goodness is only remarkable in its ability to love while knowing the depths of the underground. We explore how Father Zosima counsels the brokenhearted with hope that refuses to collapse into platitudes, and how his radical teaching—“I am responsible not only for myself, but for everyone else, and I...
