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• Title:
  Russian Yearning for Elite Power: Nikolai Berdyaev’s Reflections on the Metaphysics of Democratism
• Creator:
  Jedliński, Marek
• Description:
  The purpose of this article is to present Nikolai Berdyaev’s view of power and how it is exercised in a democracy. The Russian thinker treated power as an evil that the democratic system was not free from. Berdyaev regarded the metaphysics of democratism as a manifestation of human hubris and a fall into what is mediocre and devoid of deeper spirituality. He argued that power should be aristocratic, not egalitarian. In his view, only the chosen, few, the eminent, possessed the ability to guide the masses toward the highest values.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2023.12.11
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studies in the History of Philosophy; Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023): Power as an Object of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought; 39-57;
  Studia z Historii Filozofii; Tom 14 Nr 3 (2023): Power as an Object of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought; 39-57;
  2391-775X;
  2083-1978
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/szhf/article/view/47329/37068
• Subject:
  Nikolai Berdyaev;
  power,;
  democracy,;
  metaphysics,;
  elitism
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/szhf/article/view/47329
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text