Abstract

This chapter focuses on Kierkegaard’s ideas of ethics and Berdyaev’s one, to underline that from their point of view, ethics is a creative energy of personality and spiritual life, which is translated as ethos. Since the Greeks, ethos has the meaning of inner dwelling. From the existential perspective of Kierkegaard and Berdyaev, it can be understood as a way of being for each person who wants to live a creative life and experience inner growth. Ethos is the experience of the spiritual life of a human person. By analyzing ethics as creativity and inner flourishing, it will be shown that the condition for a moral and spiritual awakening is the recovery of the meaning of ethos.