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Berdyaev

[ ber-dyah-yef, -yev; Russian byir-dyah-yif ]

noun

  1. Ni·ko·lai A·le·ksan·dro·vich [nik, -, uh, -lahy al-ig-, zan, -dr, uh, -vich, -, zahn, -, nyi-kuh-, lahy, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, uh, -vyich], 1874–1948, Russian theologian and philosopher: in France after 1922.


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He has been relatively mum on Berdyaev, who like others has lauded Russia as having a unique role in history.

They were Nikolai Berdyaev, a well-known Russian religious philosopher; Lev Gumilev, an eccentric Soviet-era ethnologist; and Ivan Ilyin, a 20th-century émigré who was a fan of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

Perhaps it would be too big an ask to start with Christian existentialist Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Philosophy of Inequality – which Trump’s Kremlin counterpart distributed to regional governors as required reading.

It was an expression of what Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev described as Russia's split soul: torn between the attraction of anarchy on the one hand and the desire for a firm ruler on the other.

It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers�among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich.

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