Philosophy in Dialogue

Here we discuss the last two sections of Nicholas Berdyaev's Slavery and Freedom. This continues his examination of the manifold ways which humans are enslaved and how to reclaim our liberation.

Nicholas Berdyaev explores the many ways humanity is enslaved. Enslavement, he argues, begins with self-alienation, which, mythically speaking, can be seen as expressed in the story of the Fall. Whether we're enslaved by society, civilization, our own egos, or even by more abstract things like nature itself, or being, or even (our ideas about) God, it all stems from our objectivization - the proje...

Plotinus is the father of Neoplatonism. He lived from 204-270 CE and took the thought of Plato to new heights, deepening the meaning of its mystical and psychological significance.

The presocratics are know as the first Philosophers, at least in the western world and according to written history. They asked the question "what's the world made of at its most basic and fundamental level?" Little of their works remains intact today but what does survive tells of a fundamentally different worldview than ours today. They're answers to the question of what's the world made of, and...