Spiritual development of personality according to Nikolai Lossky

The article presents the spiritual development of personality according to the Russian philosopher Nikolai Lossky, who emigrated after the Communists came to power in Russia and lived in Czechoslovakia between the world wars. The main sources of this study are his texts published there at that time. Lossky incorporated the spiritual development of personality into his worldview, revealing an analogy between it and the evolution of nature. Novels of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, contributed to his knowledge of the human heart. He also confronted his conclusions with medical and therapeutic practice, taking advantage of his acquaintance with the Czech founder of psychosomatic medicine Ctibor Bezděk. Although he was a non-conformist thinker in many respects, his views of the spiritual development of personality were heavily influenced by traditional Christian theology.