Abstract

Although moving from Berdjaev’s interpretation of Dostoevskij, Pareyson concludes differently: i. e. not with an aporethical dialectic but with an onthology of freedom. Pareyson focalizes his interpretation on the philosophical problem of God and distinguishes between atheism and nihilism. According to Pareyson not atheism but nihilism implies the strongest negation of God. If we can consider atheism the negative moment of God’s life, at the opposite in a nihilistic perspective God is simply a meaningless idea.