Personality as an Axiological Experience, from the Existential Philosophy of Nikolai Berdyaev
Abstract
In this article I intend to understand the concept of person as the core of an authentic existence in Berdyaev’s existential philosophy, which has at its center the idea of personality as an axiological presence and experience. This means that it is a spiritual human being and not a mere product of a biological evolution that is developing towards a technological stage (the man machine, robot, cyborg, etc.). This spiritual experience of being a person places the human being in the only place in the cosmos that no technology can replicate or capture.References
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