After the first, second, third, and fourth series of conferences, given as part of the “Mondays of Port-Royal” and organized by Orthodoxie.com, Bertrand Vergely, an Orthodox philosopher, gives here a fifth series of conferences entitled: “Introduction to the ethics of creative life“.
Nikolai Berdyaev devoted his entire thought to showing that true morality does not oppose God to freedom nor freedom to God, but rather, that God leads to freedom, and freedom to God. This year, the conferences will thus be devoted to this question: what is creative ethics? How does God lead to freedom? And how does freedom lead to God?

September 2017
1. The Word, by principle. Saint John.
2. The symbol. Maxim the Confessor.
3. Poetic correspondences. Baudelaire.

October 2017
4. The experience of beauty. Plato.
5. The spirit. Hegel.
6. Life. Bergson.
7. The person. Berdyaev.
8. Evidence and simplicity. Descartes.

November 2017
9. Truth, as sign of itself. Spinoza.
10. Apophatism. Antinomic logics. Eminence.
11. Pascal and Christ.
12. Kant and the critique.

December 2017
13. Eschatology. Meaning.
14. Subconscious. Consciousness. Supraconsciousness.
15. I am the Life. Presence.

January 2018
16. The new birth. A spiritual God.
17. The noble man. Meister Eckhart. A spiritual man.
18. Life that goes everywhere.
19. Life that endures everything.

February 2018
20. Life that slays everything.
21. Theism and atheism.
22. Tyranny and slavery.

March 2018
23. Man and the world.
24. Science and technology.
25. Politics and social life.

April 2018
26. Ethics and religion.
27. Art and culture.

May 2018 
28. The crisis of ethics. Man split in two.
29. Ethics without God. Secularism.
30. Politics without God. Theological politics.
31. Religion and mysticism without God.

June 2018 
32. The absurd. Revolt. Boredom. Nostalgia.
33. The spiritual origin of ethics.
34. The principle. Duty. Awakening. Good and evil.
35. From law to life. Ethics. Beyond Good and Evil.