The Destiny Of Man (english And Russian Edition)

In The Destiny of Man, Nikolai Berdyaev sketches the plan of a new ethics. This new ethics will be knowledge not only of good and evil, but also of the tragedy which is constantly present in moral experience and complicates all of man's moral judgments. It will emphasize the crucial importance of the personality and of human freedom. The new ethics will interpret moral life as a creative activity; it will be an ethics of free creativeness, an ethics that combines freedom, compassion, and creativeness. Before communism's distortions, Berdyaev saw human life entrenched in the struggles of ideologies, ethics and law. He understood that freedom was formed first in a conceptual framework and then an attempt made to idealize that into a real life working copy. Unfortunately, the Russian revolution started and the end of an ideal life ended also. Harry Laine