20th century · 1874–1948
Who influenced Nikolai Berdyaev?
Influences
Freedom before being: personalist Christianity, creativity, and the meaning of history.
Nikolai Berdyaev was influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Solovyov. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Nikolai Berdyaev?
Nikolai Berdyaev was a Russian philosopher, theologian and Christian existentialist. His work centres on the spiritual meaning of human freedom and of the human person.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Nikolai Berdyaev?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821–1881
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
The line of teachers behind Nikolai Berdyaev
The longest documented line of influence ending at Nikolai Berdyaev runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Pyotr Chaadayev
- Aleksey Khomyakov
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Two steps away from Nikolai Berdyaev
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Nikolai Berdyaev
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Nikolai Berdyaev, with no direct line between them.
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
- Ernst Cassirer 1874–1945
- G. E. Moore 1873–1958
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Sergei Bulgakov 1871–1944
- Semyon Frank 1877–1950
- Kitarō Nishida 1870–1945
Nikolai Berdyaev by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 90
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 55 — #44 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Russian religious renaissance: Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Pavel Florensky, Semyon Frank, Nikolay Lossky, Lev Shestov
Questions about Nikolai Berdyaev
- Who influenced Nikolai Berdyaev?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Solovyov.
- Who did Nikolai Berdyaev influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Nikolai Berdyaev.
- When did Nikolai Berdyaev live?
- 1874–1948. The map files Nikolai Berdyaev under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Nikolai Berdyaev card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Nikolai Berdyaev in 55 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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