The Reign and the Freedom. A Controversial Question in Peter Chaadaev’s Thought
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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1961Keywords:
Peter Chaadaev, freedom, history, tradition, personhood, ChurchAbstract
The proposed paper intends to analyze Chaadaev’s thought with a special attention to his view on Christianity fulfillment through time. The issue is to show incoherence of whatever thought willing to give shape to the authentic Christian sense of history without any regard to the concept of person and radical freedom connected to it. Chaadaev faces difficulties defining ethics and the value of human actions: if good actions are just the result of human submission to the Creator, than even the Bible is a mere Church product, a book written by men long time ago. In this perspective, Christian understanding of the tradition cannot be maintained.References
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