Christian Foundations of the Idea of Freedom in Philosophy of B. P. Vysheslavtsev

The article examines the problem of the “sovereign rights” of the individual in the philosophy of B. P. Vysheslavtsev. The Fichtean “justification of freedom” is actualised by the need to counteract the transformation of man into a “capitalist function”. Such anthropology is focused on the unity of free human will and the “life-giving goodness” of being: the central metaphysical question is about the ideal. Religious experience provides the necessary grounds for developing a theory of the world as a single whole. The “universal” idea, which unites the theoretical and practical, as well as the aesthetic content of the concept, is, first of all, the idea of Christian love. Any social (“organic”) function acts normally and abnormally, allowing abuses and generating injustice. The Christian worldview, self-determination of the individual — the realisation of a specific moral ideal, free spiritual creativity allow to resist the “philosophical poverty” of industrial culture and “collective impersonality”.