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The Destiny of Man

О назначении человека. Опыт парадоксальной этики

byNikolai Berdyaev

His great work of ethics, published in Paris in 1931. It distinguishes three ethics — of law, of redemption and of creativity — and argues that the good itself, when it becomes an imposed norm, can turn into evil; true ethics is creative and personal, and culminates in an eschatological ethics facing death, hell and the Kingdom. In Self-Knowledge he calls it his 'most perfect' and 'most systematic' work; the plan of the book, he says, came to him all at once at a Diaghilev ballet.

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