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ISSN: 2406-1786
In: Solovʹëvskie issledovanija, Heft 3, S. 135-153
The article analyzes and compares two interpretations of the "social question" and the ways of solving it as they are offered in the works of N.A. Berdyaev and S.L. Frank. A particular attention is paid to the connection between the "social question" and the problem of "Christian socialism". While acknowledging the general importance of the social issues for the Christian mindset, both philosophers traced the origin of social injustice to the human nature rather than to the social structure. In both interpretations, in fact, the value of social justice is inferior in its hierarchal status to the value of Christian love. However, while they both rejected the socialist utopia of a "paradise on Earth" and the idea of a "Christian socialism", Berdyaev and Frank radically diverged in their interpretation and assessment of socialism as a social system. This article highlights the fact that Berdyaev combines a criticism of the ideological claims concerning atheistic and materialist socialism with an uncritical acceptance of a number of socialist ideologies (e.g. "class struggle" and "exploitation") and assumptions. Unlike Berdyaev, in interpreting the "social issue" Frank tended to distance himself from both classical liberalism (with its notions of private property, freedom, and state) and from socialism, which he considered as another ideological extremity. Frank's social philosophy treats the thesis that the socialist system is more consistent and successful than others in tackling the "social issue" as an empirically dubious assumption. On the contrary, Berdyaev took this thesis for granted and used it as the starting point of his reasoning. This divergence, along with the fact that the same key terms were often used by the two philosophers in different (ideological) meanings, partly accounts for their differences in the interpretation of the "social question" and in the assessment of socialism.
In: Bibliothèque européenne des idées
In: Texte zur Forschung 12
In: Studies in church history
In: Subsidia 6
In: Critique internationale, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 171
ISSN: 1777-554X
In: Voprosy filosofii: naučno-teoretičeskij žurnal, Band 22, Heft 10, S. 105-115
ISSN: 0042-8744
In: Cogitatio fidei 289
In: Figures protestantes
In: La nuit surveillée