Nikolai Berdyaev’s Creative Ethics of Personality and Christian Worldview

Abstract

How are we to respond to a world troubled by sudden and deep globalchanges and tormented by enslaving pressures from every corner? Thisessay responds to this question by exploring the ethical thought of NikolaiBerdyaev. Particularly, this essay describes the main features of creativeethics and the notion of personality that forms the foundation of this ethics.This essay also discusses the Christian worldview that nourishes and isnourished by creative ethics through an analysis of the particularities ofBerdyaev’s appropriation of four key Christian concepts: goodness, God,eternity, and paradise.