The Problem of Personality and Freedom in the Sartre’s and N. Berdyaev’s Philosophy

Abstract

This study examines the problem of personality and freedom in the thoughts of Berdyaev and Sartre. The problem of personality and freedom has attracted the attention of philosophers throughout the history and it was among the issues on which existentialist philosophy focused especially in the XIXth and XXth centuries. In this study, we will try to examine Russian philosopher Berdyaev’s personalist thoughts which were grounded on the philosophy of German philosophers, and his effects on Sartre. The problem of freedom and personality shows itself, in both Russian and Western philosophy, as an effort to the sense that an independent and original status is to be given to the moral problem. This effort, in the Berdyayev and Sartre’s exis- tential philosophy, appeared as a problem of personality and freedom. But the way both thinkers solve the problem has led them to different forms of argumentation in their thoughts. In our article, it is an important point to dig deeper into the problem and to compare two different argumentations with each other. In addition, the effort of people in Berdyayev philosophy is directed to the self-recognition/self-knowledge/ self-realization. In this context, experimental side of “Existence”, for Berdyayev, is “To be internally experience of existence itself”; “It is descend to the mystery of Be- ing”. Because, God is the realm of freedom and this area is blessed to human being. According to Berdyaev, the moral itself is “the philosophy of freedom”. Freedom is not only restricted to the values sphere; it is, at the same time, associated with the ex- istence of human being. However, according to Sartre, freedom has no ground. On the contrary, freedom is the essence of all things.

Keywords

• Personality,freedom,ego,J. P Sartre,N. A Berdyayev

Nikolay Berdyayev ve Sartre Felsefesinde Kişilik ve Özgürlük Problemi

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Berdyayev ve Sartre düşüncesinde kişilik ve özgürlük

problemi ele alınmaktadır. Kişilik ve özgürlük problemi felsefe tarihi boyunca

filozofların ilgisini çektiği gibi özellikle XIX. ve XX. yüzyıllarda varoluşçu

felsefenin de yoğun olarak üzerinde durduğu konulardır. Biz bu çalışmada

Rus düşünürü Berdyayev’in Alman düşünürlerden yola çıkarak temellendirdiği

personalizm görüşlerini ve Sartre üzerindeki etkilerini incelemeye çalışacağız.

Özgürlük ve kişilik sorunu, gerek Rus felsefesi gerekse Batı felsefesinde, ahlak

problemini bağımsız, orijinal bir statüde felsefeye yeniden kazandırma çabası

olarak kendisini gösterir. Berdyayev’e göre ahlakın kendisi bir “özgürlük

felsefesi”dir. Özgürlük sadece değerler alanıyla sınırlı değil, bizzat insanın

varoluş kumaşıyla ilişkilidir. Oysa Sartre’a göre özgürlüğün bir temeli yoktur.

Aksine, özgürlük bütün şeylerin özüdür.

Keywords

• Kişilik,özgürlük,benlik,J. P. Sartre,N. A. Berdyayev