Open AccessWar and Faith: The Issue of Moral Restoration in Philosophical Works of N.A. Berdyayev and A.A. Kersnovsky
Author(s) -
Анна Маратовна Давлетшина
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
obŝestvo: filosofiâ, istoriâ, kulʹtura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2223-6449
pISSN - 2221-2787
DOI - 10.24158/fik.2020.12.8
Subject(s) - spanish civil war , faith , just war theory , interpretation (philosophy) , duty , law , world war ii , context (archaeology) , viewpoints , sociology , political science , religious studies , history , philosophy , theology , art , linguistics , archaeology , visual arts
The paper aims to look into the understanding of war in the context of Orthodox Christian culture, presented by emigrants who were forced to aban-don Russia after the Great War and the revolutions and the Civil War that followed. The author com-pares the attitude to the war from two viewpoints: of N.A. Berdyayev, emigrant who had no combat expe-rience, and A.A. Kersnovsky, emigrant who had field experience in war and philosophized about it. In their works they contemplate war through their exis-tential situations, demonstrate personal paths of faith through the horrors of war, and construct the framework of interpretation of war for their emigrat-ed compatriots. Reflecting on the war experience pushes N.A. Berdyayev and A.A. Kersnovsky to re-consider the essence of war by faith, which takes to the moral restoration, acceptance of guilt and claim-ing responsibility for the violence. The conclusion establishes that, in their interpretation, war does not present itself as essentially evil, it is rather a space for a man to act out their free will in its fullness, by serving their Christian duty in a righteous war.