Freedom Berdyaev's philosophy starts with freedom, which he maintains is the basis of all else. Freedom is the context of our existence which cannot be judged or determined by anything else, for otherwise it would not be freedom. In spite of this, freedom has still to be achieved. It would be a mistake to think that the average man loves freedom. A still greater mistake would be to suppose that freedom is an easy thing.
Freedom is a difficult thing.
It is easier to remain in slavery. The objective mind has split the world into subject and object, self and others, Spirit and nature, and so on. In determination, in rationalization, that is to say in objectivization, freedom disappears. Truth Our notion of truth is presently under the spell of objectivization. Only what can be objectively verified is considered to be true, genuine, and trustworthy.