title: Theological question in a philosophical perspective: Nikolai Berdyaev’s theory of a lie
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metadata.value: Nesmeyanov, Evgenii E.
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metadata.value: 2020-12-01T13:02:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-12-01T13:02:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Nesmeyanov E.E. Theological question in a philosophical perspective: Nikolai Berdyaev’s theory of a lie. Issues of Theology, 2020, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 471–479.
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metadata.value: http://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2020.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/21132
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metadata.value: The article considers the conception of a lie established in the work of Nikolai
  Berdyaev during the first half of the 20th century. The socially organized lie was at
  the center Berdyaev’s attention. In the middle of the 20th century, new theoretical
  perceptions of necessity, legality and even value of a lie emerge. A lie is declared
  to be a norm of European culture, an inevitable component of economic, political and scientific practice, an essential component of people’s ordinary and family
  life. Criticizing these ideas, Berdyaev puts forward a number of counterarguments
  relevant both during his time and at the beginning of the 21st century, which makes
  this article significant. The fundamental originality of the study of a lie by the Russian philosopher consists in changing the main cause of the phenomenon, from
  the personal moral and psychological characteristics of a person to the ontological cause. Berdyaev creates a philosophical-religious theory of “Tragic theodicy”,
  where he links the origin of the free will of a person (including the freedom to lie)
  with the peculiarities of the origin of Space from two sources. These sources are the
  will of God and from voluntary consent to become the existence of some primordium — “Meon (abyss)”, “Abyss”, “Baselessness”: human free will is not a gift from
  God. A person’s freedom to act comes before the act itself, its roots are in Meon. For
  this reason, it is impossible to make God responsible for cosmic disasters and for
  the irrational destructive behavior of man. God is all-merciful, but not almighty,
  and He cannot prevent the negative consequences of a person’s free will. A lie on
  a worldwide scale is “a lie of the world”, which produces horrendous consequences
  and creates “a false existence”, it is related to Meon and it is produced by people. The
  article is intended to attract the attention of the scientific community to the creative
  heritage of Nikolai Berdyaev.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 2; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Meon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Abyss
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a false existence
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a lie of the world
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a social lie
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a conditional lie
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: courtesy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a virtuous lie
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Truth
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Faith
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gospel
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saint Augustine
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Immanuel Kant
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nikolai Berdyaev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Theological question in a philosophical perspective: Nikolai Berdyaev’s theory of a lie
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