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Title:: Implication of Berdiaev’s Theory of Individual Personality for China: Constructing a Sound Personality for Chinese Citizens

Keywords:: Berdiaev; individual personality; subject personality; citizen personality; citizen culture

Abstract:: Personality makes the core of any discussion about what makes a man the man he is. The personality of an individual is not formed naturally, but needs to be constructed. Any individual exists in the society, and his socialization is in fact a process of enslavement. Only by advancing along a path leading him to God and then taking God as his “other” can an individual get rid of slavery and achieve a spiritual enhancement. Such a view held by Berdiaev’s individual personality theory means a lot for the construction of citizen personality in our country. On the one hand, the cultivation of citizen personality depends on the independence of the individual. On the other hand, it should realize the upgrading and transcendence of his spirit. However, the citizen personality is not in unresolved conflict with the society and religion is not the only way to realize the transcendence and upgrading of spirit. Only by making an individual’s duties and obligations clear, keeping independent in personality, maintaining freedom in spirit can we construct a sound citizen personality, promote the construction of citizen culture and finally realize the modernization of people.