Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar

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* Book: he Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar. By Nikolai Berdyaev, 1952

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"Nikolai Berdyaev categorized five historical periods on the relationship between humanity and nature. This meta-historical framework was articulated due to his concern about an obstructive imbalance between spirituality, materialism, and modern industrial technology. ... (It) ... predicts the transition from a technical industrial society to one based around autonomous spheres of operation including the internet and artificial intelligence. The final stage of the fourth period, our current era, was predicted by Berdyaev to be marked by a new form of global subjugation – in the merging of technology with the state and our enslavement to our own discoveries. Attention is also given to a future, eschatological fifth period in which Berdyaev believed a spiritual revolution would accompany widespread dissolution of state power and the emancipation of labor."


Discussion

By Alexei Anisin:

"Berdyaev projected that a later period of history would feature a spiritual awakening that would see the divine spiritual characteristic of human beings come to fruition during a spiritual victory over age-old governmental institutions and concentrated forms of coercive social organization. He referred to the latter as belonging to the Realm of Caesar. This projection was put forward in his last book, the Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar(1952) as the fifth of five total periods of the history of human beings’ relationship to the cosmos. Berdyaev believed that what had been referred to as “being” by existentialist philosophers of his epoch is not the “final depth of value,” and that a future spiritual transformation would enable human beings to experience a new spiritual life (Berdyaev 1952, 18)."

(https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/916/1646)


More information

* Article: HUMANITY AND THE DISRUPTION OF THE COSMOS: HOW BERDYAEV FORESAW OUR RELIANCE ON MACHINES. By Alexei Anisin. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 3, 2021

URL = https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/916/1646

  • In his final work, the Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar (1952), Nikolai Berdyaev categorized five historical periods on the relationship between humanity and nature. This meta-historical framework was articulated due to his concern about an obstructive imbalance between spirituality, materialism, and modern industrial technology. This essay overviews the framework and considers it with relation to eras subsequent his passing. It finds that Berdyaev’s projection was not only theoretically plausible, but turned out to be remarkably accurate in predicting the transition from a technical industrial society to one based around autonomous spheres of operation including the internet and artificial intelligence. The final stage of the fourth period, our current era, was predicted by Berdyaev to be marked by a new form of global subjugation – in the merging of technology with the state and our enslavement to our own discoveries. Attention is also given to a future, eschatological fifth period in which Berdyaev believed a spiritual revolution would accompany widespread dissolution of state power and the emancipation of labor."
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