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The ‘eminent’ text and its truth In H.-G. Gadamer, Hermeneutics and poetics. Selected works (Trans. from German by Vitalyi Babich). Kyiv: Yunivers [Universe], 2001, pp. 153-163.

Hans-Georg Gadamer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Gadamer's goal is to define the concept of an eminent text. To do this, he first defines what is meant by fiction, since the eminence of a text is revealed within its limits. For Gadamer, literature is first and foremost fiction. To classify a work as literature means to recognize certain qualities, including the ability to appeal to values that go beyond purely communicative needs.

It is important to note that a change in the communicative situation does not devalue the truth of the eminent text. Its truth is not based on situationality but on intrinsic value.

In addition, the eminent text needs to be read, because it is through reading that it acquires its being. Reading is the form of its existence, because it is hermeneutics, and hermeneutics, in turn, is the act of reading. Thus, whenever an eminent text is read, it reveals its highest value, and the reader becomes a hermeneutic of this value. In order to take place as such a hermeneutic, the reader must mobilize appropriate hermeneutic resources.

Oleksandr Lukovyna

The Problem of the Correlation between the Form and Content of Thinking on the Pages of the Journal "Dialectica" In Visnyk [Bulletin] of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian USSR, No. 4, 1958, pp. 70-78.

Myroslav Popovych — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A review of articles from the Swiss journal «Dialectica» for 1955-1956. The authors under consideration are Ferdinand Gonseth, Hugo Dingler, Arthur Pap, Louis Rougier, and others.

The campaign against reason. Irrationalism in Contemporary French Bourgeois Philosophy: Kyiv, Vydavnytstvo AN URSR [Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR], 1960, 156 p.

Myroslav Popovych — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of the work is to criticize the philosophical foundations of irrationalism on the example of 20th century French philosophy. The book is based on the author's PhD thesis. Analyzing the genesis of the phenomenon of irrationalism, the author seeks to reveal the organic connection between the irrationalist self-negation of philosophy and philosophical idealism, and also proves the ideological and theoretical affinity of “atheistic” irrationalism with religious “rationalism”. Irrationalism is considered as a phenomenon inherent in various philosophical trends - “atheistic” and Catholic existentialism, spiritualism, Bergsonianism, phenomenology, neotomism, and neopositivism. Popovych draws on thematic French-language works by Ferdinand Alquié, Jean-François Lyotard , Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Étienne Gilson, Jean Wahl, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and others.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I. Social roots and ideological sources of contemporary French irrationalism

Social roots of irrationalism in modern France

Ideological sources of contemporary French irrationalism

Chapter II. The irrationalist denial of the objectivity of the laws of nature

Contemporary French idealists on their attitude to irrationalism

What lies behind the talk about the ‘reasonableness of the world’

More about the ‘reasonableness of the world’. Irrationalism and dialectic

Chapter III. The irrationalist campaign against reason

Irrationalism on the nature of thinking

Reason and intuition

Irrationalism and the problem of freedom and necessity

Conclusion. French Communists at the forefront of the struggle against irrationalism

Appendices

Philosophy of Freedom: Kharkiv, Folio, 2018, 524 p.

Myroslav Popovych — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The book is a collection of diverse works by the Ukrainian philosopher Myroslav Popovych, prepared and organized by the author himself during his lifetime. In particular, the publication contains materials of political-philosophical, socio-philosophical, historical-philosophical, philosophical-biographical, and cultural orientation. A special place is occupied by a study on analytical philosophy, in which the author summarizes his own long-term research in the field of logic and methodology of science.

Contents

Preface. Myroslav Popovych: Philosophy of freedom. N. Viatkina

Part 1. The semiotics of Kyiv. Ancient Kyiv — The capital of Rus'.

Part 2. Ukraine in the system of European values Ivan Kotliarevsky and his “Aeneid”

Mykola Gogol

Petro Mohyla

Duke Repnin

“History of the Rus” and the Novhorod-Siverskyi Circle

The Baranovych circle in Chernihiv

Hryhorii Skovoroda in the context of the philosophical and religious movements of the Early Modern period

The image of the Little Russian in Russian memory

The image of the Great Russian in Ukrainian Historical Memory

The Humanism of Shevchenko

The Legacy of Mykhailo Drahomanov

Vernadskyi

Petliura

On the 70th anniversary of Ivan Dziuba

Yevhen Sverstiuk

The flowers of Kateryna Bilokur

Part 3. Against the background of world culture

Humanism

Albert Camus

Berdiaiev

On André Malraux

Introduction to the reflections of Merab Mamardashvili

George Orwell

Part 4. The discourse of culture: macro and micro dimensions.

Should there be liberals in Ukraine?

Liberal values, or reflections at the front entrance of Europe

Intuitive notions of mentality

The national question in a country of "Developed Socialism"

Modern and postmodern: philosophy and politics

Morality and politics

Reason and freedom

Philosophy of freedom

Reason, ethics, politics

The Faustian Spirit

Part 5. Essays on Analytical Philosophy

The Open Society

Thought—Word—Action

Sign systems in a social context

Science as a part of culture

The place of the Lviv-Warsaw School in 20th-century Analytical Philosophy

Logical and methodological analysis of the language of science and the problem of knowledge representation

Analytical Philosophy as an empirical study,

An attempt at analyzing the language of deductive sciences and contemporary humanities,

Logic and action. Cultural universals

The logic of cognition and the logic of action

Crime and punishment

Instead of a conclusion. The problem of cultural universals

Rationality and Dimensions of Human Existence: Kyiv, Sphera, 1997, 290 p.

Myroslav Popovych — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The author formulates a general concept of the study of human existence , which claims to be in full compliance with the requirements of rationalism and is close to the ideology of modern science. The book is based on logical, logical-mathematical and natural science material presented popularly. It is intended primarily for people with humanitarian interests.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter I. Structure and movement

The Erlangen program and «mathematical structuralism»
— Invariant. Ideology of the Erlangen Program. — Mathematical space
Randomness, entropy and information
Deterministic and probabilistic systems. — Entropy and information.
Dissipative structures. Information and evolution.
«Biological structuralism»
«Humanitarian structuralism»
Linguistic structuralism. — Structuralism in ethnology.
Structuralist «phenomenology of the spirit»
— Structuralism in psychology. — Philosophical phenomenology.

Chapter II. The multidimensional man

Structure, space, information, psychic energy
Space and field. — — «Psychic energy».
Philosophical associations: the world as a projection of human «essential forces»
Three dimensions of a man
Three fundamental dimensions of communication
The space of communication. — The cognitive dimension of communication. — The suggestive dimension of communication. — The expressive dimension of communication.
Communication as action
Being as order and chaos

Chapter III. Truth and Absurdity

The Problem of Truth and the «Crisis of European Culture»
Empirical studies of infinity
Contradictions in the basis of accurate thinking
Contradictory theories and «contradictory concepts». — Contradiction and incompleteness in deductive theories. — Extensional and intensional dimensions.
The space of individual psyche and thinking
Individual development of thinking
Acceptance of truth
Analysis and synthesis: two dimensions
Sense and nonsense
Breakthrough through the absurd: the mysticism of contradiction
Rationalised contradiction: the German dialectic
Closure of space — collapse

Chapter IV. Truth, good and beauty

The space of culture
Human features of cultures. Fromm's typology
Parameters of cultures and parameters of the individual. — Autonomy of spaces. — Different starting points. — Discreteness of the cultural field of humanity.
Historical examples: Scythian-Sarmatians
Germans
Greeks
Tragedy and antistructure
Culture of crying and culture of laughter
Rethinking structures
Philosophy of symbolism and structural semiotics
«Eternal structures» — archetypes
Model of the world. — Sacred and profane. — — Journey to the «other world». — Doppelgangers.
Evolution and degradation
Paradigm and meaning of tragedy
A breakthrough through the absurd
Cognition of truth as understanding: analysis and synthesis
From the space of myth to the artistic space and vice versa
In the force field of sugestion
Structure and progress: freedom, equality, fraternity

Summary

Literature

Concerning the Ancient Greek Ideal of Theoretical Thought. In Hintikka, J., Gruender, D., Agazzi, E. (eds.) Theory Change, Ancient Axiomatics, and Galileo’s Methodology. Synthese Library, vol 145. Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 113-124

Myroslav Popovich — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article was prepared especially for the Second International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, held on September 4-8, 1978, in Pisa (Italy). According to the conference program, Popovych's research was presented in the section “Early History of the Axiomatic Method”. Through a logical reconstruction of the theoretical systems of ancient science, the author reassesses the nature of the theoretical achievements of antiquity. Popovych traces the origin of key scientific terms such as analysis, synthesis, logic, and dialectic from ancient philosophy and compares their meanings and peculiarities of use in ancient and modern philosophy. In addition, the article shows the path of ancient philosophers to the realization of the ideal of theoretical thinking by means of logical and philosophical analysis.

Review of M. Popovych. Rationality and Dimensions of Human Existence (Kyiv, Sphera, 1997, 290 p.) In Duh i Litera, No. 3-4, 1998, pp. 451-454.

Volodymyr Verloka — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Volodymyr Verloka's review of Myroslav Popovych's book Rationality and the Dimensions of Human Existence.

Human tragedy In Vitchyzna, No. 11, 1981, pp. 182-188.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article is dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the birth of Fedir Dostoevskyi. Analyzing three plans in Dostoevskyi's work (ground, environment, and earth), the author shows that for Dostoevskyi, the ground is moral values, the environment is external circumstances that put pressure on a person, and the earth is the world of freedom and love. In addition, Popovych reflects on Dostoevskyi's polyphony: it is the result of a subtle sense of the dialectic of social and personal development, as well as the dialectic of alienation in an antagonistic society.

Indifference is a field for manipulation. Interview with Myroslav Popovych In The Independent cultural journal “Ї”, No. 30, 2003, pp. 10-25.

Myroslav Popovych, Jan Tchaikovskyi — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jan Tchaikovskyi's interview with Myroslav Popovych is dedicated to the topic of manipulation, its theoretical aspects (metaphysical, ethical, political implications), and the place it occupies in Ukrainian political life.

Europe - Ukraine - the Right and the Left: Kyiv, Center for Civic Education "Kyivske bratstvo", 1997, 108 p.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Myroslav Popovych's research attempts to assess the geopolitical situation from a social democratic perspective and to analyze the relationship between left-wing and right-wing ideologies in the Ukrainian and European contexts. It is intended for specialists in the field of social sciences, teachers, students, and a wide range of readers.

Contents

The socialist position today

Europe without us

Europe as a civilization: a little philosophy of history

Europe as a civilization: "liberty, equality, fraternity"

The Threat to European Civilization

Europe and the "Islamic World"

Russia: a Eurasian civilization?

Socialist Choice – Europe

The USA as a European Problem

Europe and America against nationalism

European law

The unrespectable right

The right is neither right nor left

Three sources and three components of socialism

The Left is neither left nor right

Ukraine in a social democratic perspective

Logic Does Not Teach Thinking In “Nauka i suspilstvo” (Science and Society), No. 7, 1972, pp. 41–42.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A popular article by Myroslav Popovych, in which he comprehends the phenomenon of thinking and the role of logic in this process. The author describes logical laws as logical algorithms that postulate the principles of consistent intellectual activity. Compliance with these laws makes it possible to achieve the goals set in scientific research. In addition to the algorithms of logic, Popovych also identifies “algorithms of creativity” and “algorithms of genius” and points out that all three are necessary for scientific progress.

The Dispassion of Science and the Suffering of Being In Vitchyzna, No. 11, 1981, pp. 8-9.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the article, Myroslav Popovych attempts to clarify the role of science in productive resolution of social crises in a short and popular form. The author emphasizes that a scientist needs a sufficient level of abstraction from specific historical circumstances; in his opinion, this leads to a sober assessment and the most successful solution to a social crisis.

Claude Lévi-Strauss between structure and myth In Krytyka, No. 12 (134), 2008, pp. 26-27.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article was written on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the French anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. According to Myroslav Popovych, the basis for Lévi-Strauss's conceptualization of the concept of structure was his appeal to the problem of the expansion of the universe in the scientific concepts of Newton and Leibniz. The article also highlights the essence of the difference in views between Lévi-Strauss and Lucien Lévi-Bruhl on the issue of understanding the mechanisms of thinking in archaic cultures.

Foreword to the Ukrainian edition In M. Mamardashvili, Cartesian Meditations (pp. 5-8): Kyiv, Stylos.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Foreword by Myroslav Popovych to the Ukrainian edition of Merab Mamardashvili's «Cartesian Meditations».

Language, thinking and cybernetics In «Nauka i suspilstvo» (Science and Society), No. 7, 1972, pp. 18-20.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the article, the author problematizes how to reconcile the idea of the brain as a complex mechanism with the thesis that it is impossible to mechanize mental activity. He believes that the function of thinking is speech and raises the question of the possibility of a cybernetic model of thinking. He concludes that such a model is possible, but leaves the remark that any model is poorer than the original.

The Left Centre of European Politics: Historical Experience and Acquired Taboos In Krytyka, No. 2, 1997, pp. 19-23.

Serhii Hrabovskyi — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Serhii Hrabovskyi's review of Myroslav Popovych's book «Europe - Ukraine - the Right and the Left».

Logic and Scientific Cognition: Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 1971, 155 p.

Myroslav Popovych — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The book analyzes the phenomenon of scientific thinking as a consequence of transformations of human everyday thinking in the process of deepening our knowledge of reality. The author also provides a brief summary of the main ideas and methods of modern formal logic. The publication is intended for a wide range of readers.

Contents

P. V. Kopnin. Logic of science or science of logic? (Instead of a preface)

Science seeks reliable strongholds

Let’s try to imagine

What we will not see

Is there hope in mathematics?

"The crisis of obviousness"

Can we still rely on "Common Sense"?

The main ideas and methods of modern formal logic

The idea of "Logical calculus"

Propositional calculus

Axiomatic constructions of propositional calculus

Logistic systems and their properties

Predicate calculus

Axiomatic construction of predicate Calculus and Its Properties

Pure and applied predicate calculi

One logic or many logics?

Logic and infinity

Logic for the infinite?

The universality of logic

Dialectics and the demand for consistency

The structure of language and the structure of the world

Logical paradoxes and the "Riddles of the Universe"

Name, object, property, relation in logic

The "Nominalist" and "Realist" conception of Truth

Beyond theoretical logic

Freedom and Necessity in scientific knowledge

Definitions and conventions

Freedom, choice, responsibility, necessity

The objective meaning of symmetry operations

The conceptual framework of scientific theory

Thought as an image of reality

What does it mean to "Understand"?

Idea and theory

The conceptual framework of theory

Philosophy, Political Economy, Socialism. Anti-Dühring (Translated from Germ. by H. Petrenko, P. Morozyha, M. Havryliuk): Kharkiv-Berlin-New-York-Winnipeg, Ukraiinsko-amerykanske vydavnyche tovarystvo «Kosmos» [Ukrainian-American publishing society «Kosmos»], 1924, 436 p.

Friedrich Engels; H. Petrenko, P. Morozyha, M. Havryliuk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Translation of Friedrich Engels's «Anti-Dühring» (originally «Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft») made into Ukrainian by Hr. Petrenko, P. Morozykha, M. Havryliuk and edited by Vasyl Moroz. The publication is accompanied by an introductory article, footnotes, and indexes.

T. H. Shevchenko and the Russian revolutionary democrats of the 50-60s of the XIX century: Kyiv, Vydavnytstvo Akademii nauk Ukrainskoi RSR [Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR], 1953, 151 p.

Ivan Golovakha — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of the book is to prove the commonality of the path of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples by attempting to compare the ideas and intentions of Russian anti-monarchist figures and theorists (in particular, Alexander Radishchev, the Decembrists and Russian revolutionary democrats) with the socio-political views of Taras Shevchenko. The author considers him a supporter of ‘true revolutionary processes’ and contrasts him with his contemporaries. In the author's opinion, this comparison is appropriate because it is based on the assumption of 1) the primacy of socio-economic conditions in relation to ideological and political processes; 2) the commonality of these conditions in the territory of Ukraine and Russia at that time. This understanding leads to the author's conclusion about the common struggle of Shevchenko and Russian revolutionary democrats against serfdom and autocracy, and thus about the common destiny of the two peoples.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Section I. Historical conditions and ideological preconditions for the emergence and development of revolutionary-democratic ideology

Section II. Theoretical foundations of the socio-political programme of revolutionary democrats

Section III. Revolutionary democrats in the struggle against bourgeois liberalism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism

Section IV. The historical significance of revolutionary-democratic ideology

Literature about Skovoroda. In Knyhar: litopys ukrayinskoho pysmenstva, vol. 1-3, 1920, pp. 14-24.

Viktor Petrov — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The author examines the problem of Hryhorii Skovoroda's work, which was relevant for nineteenth-century scholars. Petrov analyses the biographical evidence about Skovoroda in the works of Mykhailo Kovalinskyi, Gustav Hess de Calvet, and Ivan Vernet. He finds analogies between Skovoroda and his biographers and Socrates and Plato. Petrov notes that the Romantic era was a period of ‘spring’ for Skovoroda, characterised by interest in his biography among intellectuals. For example, the Romantics were primarily looking for the roots of pre-Romanticism in Skovoroda.

Interest in Skovoroda waned until the 90s of the nineteenth century, but revived after the publication of Dmytro Bahalii's The Works of H. Skovoroda. Petrov argues with Bahalii's conclusion about Skovoroda's philosophy, stressing that Skovoroda could not have been a reformer of Christianity because he was too independent a thinker. In conclusion, the author notes that we should abandon the Platonised interpretation of Skovoroda's philosophy in favour of an accurate analysis of his works.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

Some sources of symbolism of H. S. Skovoroda In Pratsi Ukrayinskoho Vysokoho Pedahohichnoho Instytutu im. M. Drahomanova. Zbirnyk, vol. II, 1934, pp. 3-21.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this article, Dmytro Chyzhevskyi explores symbolism in Skovoroda's works and presents images of emblems created by the philosopher. The author proves that Skovoroda's emblems were inspired by Amsterdam symbols. Chyzhevskyi illustrates the parallels between the symbols in the Amsterdam collection and those in Skovoroda's works, including “The Alphabet of the World”, the dialogue “The Ring”, and the “Serpent of Israel”. The author argues that the idea of symbolic imagery and the Amsterdam collection were already widespread in Ukraine during Skovoroda's lifetime.

Petro Linytskyi: life path and spiritual legacy: Kyiv, Ukrainian center for spiritual culture, 1997, 208 p.

Nataliia Shupyk-Mozhova — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This book is about P. I. Linitskyi (1839—1906), honoured ordinary professor of philosophy at the Kyiv spiritual academy, his time and contemporaries. The book is based on the analysis of the philosopher's scientific works, archival documents and materials of the Central State Archive of Ukraine, and literary sources of the middle and end of the last century. It is intended for scholars and teachers of philosophy in higher education institutions, postgraduates, students, and anyone who wants to get acquainted with the Ukrainian spiritual and academic philosophy of the second half of the XIX — early XX centuries.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter One

The Kyiv school of spiritual-academic studies as a significant phenomenon in the cultural life of XIX century Ukraine

Chapter Two

From the philosophical life of XIX century Kyiv

Chapter Three

P. Linytskyi and the Kyiv religious-philosophical school of the second half of the XIX — early XX centuries

Chapter Four

Theoretico-methodological concept of the philosopher

Chapter Five.

Reflections of the Ukrainian thinker on the subject of faith

Chapter Six

Some peculiarities of P. Linytskyi's metaphysics

Chapter Seven

Development of logical and epistemological problems by the thinker

Afterword

Appendix

Scientific works of P. Linytskyi

References

Historiosophy and social philosophy of Mykhailo Drahomanov: Kyiv, Ukrainskyi Tsentr dukhovnoi kultury [Ukrainian Centre of Spiritual Culture], 1999, 210 p.

Larysa Depenchuk, Mykola Luk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The monograph examines the philosophical foundations of the worldview of one of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian culture of the second half of the XIX century, M. Drahomanov, reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of his historiosophy and social philosophy, especially liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and federalism. The author shows the hereditary connection of the thinker's socio-philosophical ideas with the Cyrilо-Methodius tradition.

CONTENTS

Preface

Section I

The philosophy of the history

Section II

Drahomanov and the Cyrilo-Methodius tradition

Section III

The history and the social ideal

Section IV

The public culture and politics

Section V

Socialism and liberalism

Instead of the afterword

Cultural and historical epochs In Ukrayinska vilna akademiya nauk. Seriya: literatura, 1948, Pt. I, pp. 3-16

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this article, Dmytro Chyzhevskyi aims to explore how we understand separate cultural epochs. The author argues that in order to imagine their development, it is necessary to understand that each epoch is a whole, a system of movements and changes that have a common direction. He argues that for a historian, the study of a particular epoch is about discovering it, not constructing its structure. Modern history offers a scheme of historical development represented by a ‘living form’ of development. Chyzhevskyi proposes to apply pan-European schemes of cultural development to the study of the Ukrainian past in order to show that Ukrainian culture developed as part of European culture. In particular, the author proposes his own scheme for understanding cultural epochs, which he calls ‘wave’, but he acknowledges and analyses a number of problems that may arise with the proposed scheme.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

Problems of contemporary aesthetics (Trans. from French by V. Shchurat): Lviv, Vydavnycha spilka «Dilo» [Publishing association «Dilo»], 1913, 176 p.

Jean-Marie Guyau; Vasyl Shchurat — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ukrainian translation of the work of the French philosopher Jean-Marie Huyot. The book ends with a translator’s word.

Essays on the History of Philosophy in Ukraine: Prague, Ukrainian Public Publishing Fund, 1931, 175 p.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

«Essays…» are a study of the development of historical and philosophical knowledge in Ukraine from the time of Christianity to the twentieth century. According to Chyzhevskyi's plan, this work was to become a pretext for further research into the history of Ukrainian philosophy.

In the first chapters, the author outlines the problems of definition and nature of national philosophy. He contrasts two approaches to these problems: 1) rationalist, which relies exclusively on «objective» principles, excluding what has no universal value; 2) romantic, which focuses on the diversity of manifestations of worldview phenomena, such as art and philosophy. Chyzhevskyi emphasises the existence of various movements within national philosophy and calls for the rejection of the view that one movement can offer «absolute truth». He makes extensive use of the concept of «national worldview», which he sees as the basis for the formation of a national philosophical tradition. This concept encompasses the norms, views, traditions and inclinations of a particular people, i.e. it is «a combination of historical and supra-historical elements» (p. 16). Chyzhevskyi studies the «national worldview» through 1) the study of national art; 2) the characterization of important historical epochs; 3) the characterization of prominent figures. Starting with the third chapter, he uses this order of presentation to present a particular historical epoch.

The manuscript of the first - more academic - version of «Essays...» of 1927 was lost. The 1931 edition was the second attempt to publish this text, but with significant changes and in a more popular format. The work was written in collaboration with Chyzhevskyi's student L. Mykolaenko, who, in particular, authored some chapters.

CONTENTS

Preface

I. Philosophy and nationality

II. The Ukrainian national character

III. Philosophy in Old Ukraine

IV. Hryhorii Skovoroda

V. Contemporaries of Skovoroda

VI. Acquaintance with German idealism

VII. Mykola Gogol

VIII. Cyryl and Methodius Brotherhood

IX. Pamphil Yurkevych

X. Philosophy in the service of science

Explanations of illustrations

Index of names

Truth and method in 2 vol. Vol. 1. Basics of philosophical hermeneutics (Trans. from Germ. by Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi): Kyiv, Yunivers, 2000, 464 p.

Hans-Georg Gadamer; Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This book is Gadamer's magnum opus, to which the author devoted 10 years. The work is considered to be a defining one for the twentieth century. In it, Gadamer describes the circular nature of understanding discovered by Heidegger. The book has an anti-enlightenment orientation, as it restores the authority of the tradition. ‘Truth and Method’ probably bears the imprint of Husserl's struggle against naturalism, as Gadamer raises the problem of the significance of art, the conditionality of statistical methods by the questions they answer, and points out that the sociality of the structure of life is a prerequisite for understanding. The work covers the following topics: historical cognition, textual criticism, legal hermeneutics, hermeneutics of understanding (phenomenological hermeneutics). In addition, it aims to address the problems of moral and practical philosophy. In the final part, Gadamer develops an ontology of language as a space of understanding.

In the ideological battles of our time: Kyiv, Vydavnytstvo khudozhnoi literatury «Dnipro» [Publishing House of Fiction ‘Dnipro’], 1981, 183 p.

Anatolii Hordiienko — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of the book is to consider universal cultural processes as a competition between modernist Western art and Soviet socialist realism, where the latter, in the author's opinion, has undoubted advantages.

CONTENTS

The challenge of the history (Instead of a preface)

The aesthetics of Leninism in the context of contemporary ideological confrontation

Insidious intentions of the class enemies of Leninism's aesthetics

The aesthetics of Leninism as a theory and methodology of analyzing artistic phenomena

The ideological essence of contemporary bourgeois falsifications of Leninist aesthetic principles.

The dead ends of ‘depoliticization’ and ‘de-ideologization’ of artistic creativity

The growing ideological role of artistic creativity as a trend in the contemporary development of literature and art

New modifications of the old slogan of ‘ideological neutrality’ of spiritual culture

Marxist-Leninist ideology is an expression of objective truth and vital truth

Historical reality and artistic understanding of man

The problem of man in contemporary artistic practice and ideological struggle

Contrary to vital truth and artistic truth

At the behest of proletarian classism and socialist collectivism

Emblems and problems of the epoch

In the grip of deceptive bourgeois consciousness

The humanistic essence of comprehending the era of the scientific-technological revolution in the literature of socialist realism

A hymn to man

Hopes for a new metaphysics In Literaturno-naukovyi visnyk, vol. 72, 1918, pt. XII, pp. 158-172.

Mykhailo Rudnytskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of the article is to review the concept of intuition in Henri Bergson's philosophy and analyse the community's reaction to his ideas. At the same time, a significant part of the article is Rudnytskyi's own reflections on the relationship between old and new philosophical theories and personal experience of experiencing them through the philosophical works of other philosophers.

Rudnytskyi draws attention to the reaction to Bergson's philosophy: admiration and protests against his theories indicate the need of the times to put an end to all doubts about old spiritual conflicts. According to the author, the concept of intuition becomes an explanation of all those unnecessary efforts when the philosopher wanted to create a complete system that could generalise what can never be generalised. Rudnytskyi concludes that intuition, as Kant's ‘thing in itself,’ is the irrational firstborn of cognition. According to the author, creative evolution is creative only in the sense that intuition cannot be a fixed idea that can be transmitted to others in a new form.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

Philosophical discourse of modernity (Trans. from German bu V. Kuplin): Kyiv, Chetverta Khvylia [The Fourth Wave], 2001, 424 p.

Jürgen Habermas; Volodymyr Kuplin — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In his work, Habermas polemicises with French neo-structuralism, which would later become part of the postmodern philosophical tradition. The initial problem of the work is caused by the neo-structuralist critique of reason. Against the background of this criticism, the author tries to reconstruct the philosophical discourse of Modernity. The author considers Modernity to be an unfinished project.

CONTENTS

A foreword from the translator

Preface

Lecture I Time consciousness in modernism and the need for its self-certification

Lecture II Hegel's concept of the Modern

Lecture ІІІ Three perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians and Nietzsche

Lecture IV Introduction to postmodernism

Lecture V Interweaving of Myth and Enlightenment. M. Horkheimer and T. Adorno.

Lecture VI Undermining Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics: Heidegger

Lecture VII The advantage of the temporalized "First Philosophy": Jacques Derrida and his critique of phonocentrism

To Lecture VII Excursion to the problem of leveling the genre difference between philosophy and literature

Lecture VIII Between eroticism and general economy: Georges Bataille

Lecture IX Critique of reason as a revelation of the humanities: Michel Foucault

Lecture X Aporia of the theory of power

Lecture XI Another way from the philosophy of the subject: an alternative to the communicative and subject-centered mind

To Lecture XI Excursion to "imaginary institutionalization" by Cornelius Castoriadis

Lecture XII Normative content of Modern

To Lecture XII Excursion into the inheritance of the philosophy of the subject by Luhmann's theory of systems

Translation and explanation of the most important terms and expressions

Notes

Name index

The State (Trans. from Gr. by Dzvinka Koval): Kyiv, Osnovy, 2000, 355 p.

Plato; Dzvinka Koval — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

«The State» by the great ancient Greek philosopher Plato (c. 427 – near c. 347 BC) is one of the most original and daring political treatises in the history of mankind. The richness of the content of «The State» and the intense pulse of free, preconceived thought have made it a source of a wide variety of ideas and inspiration for scientific research for all generations since its publication.

The Logical Basis of Metaphisycs (Transl. from Eng. By V. Navorytskyi): Kyiv: IRIS, 2001, 359 p.

Michael Dummett; V. Navorytskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Dummitt's book is a significantly expanded and revised version of his lectures on the philosophy of William James, delivered in 1976. Dummitt considered the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning to be the most urgent task of contemporary analytic philosophy. He pointed out that the successful completion of this difficult task would lead to the solution of problems that philosophy had been stuck with, in some cases, for centuries. These problems concerned the correctness or incorrectness of the realist view of a particular sphere - the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, etc. Rejecting realism is tantamount to accepting a variant semantics, and often a variant logic, for statements in a particular sector of our language. Dammitt did not claim the correctness of any one logical system, but showed how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends on the choice of a particular general form of the theory of meaning. In order to determine the correct form of a theory of meaning, we must achieve a clear idea of what we can expect from a theory of meaning.

Dmytro Shishkovskyi

Contents

Preface

Introduction. Metaphysical discussions of realism

Chapter 1. Semantic meanings

Chapter 2: Inference and truth

Chapter 3. Theories of truth

Chapter 4. Meaning, knowledge and understanding

Chapter 5. The ingredients of meaning

Chapter 6. Truth and theories of meaning

Chapter 7. The origin and role of the concept of truth

Chapter 8. Justification of deduction

Chapter 9: Cyclicity, consistency and harmony

Chapter 10. Holism

Chapter 11: Theoretical and evidential justifications of logical laws

Chapter 12. The fundamental assumption

Chapter 13. Stability

Chapter 14. Value theories based on truth conditions

Chapter 15. Realism and value theory

Index

Vyacheslav Lypynskyi as a philosopher of history In Dzvony, vol. 15, 1932, 6, pp. 451-461.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Chyzhevskyi aims to formulate the concepts that underlie Vyacheslav Lipinskyi's political outlook and to clarify the general philosophical foundations from which it proceeds.

According to Chyzhevskyi, Lypynskyi's tradition has a creative character. For Lipinskyi, aristocracy is a dynamic concept, as it is defined only at a specific moment in history. The nation is an organic collective that is defined through its belonging to the land. The land is what provides the basis for the creative power of aristocracy and tradition.

Ideas are created in the historical process. Ideas themselves have the power to influence people through the medium of words. Lypynskyi's voluntarism is that the principle of historical process and creative embodiment requires the greatest expenditure of energy.

According to Chyzhevskyi, Lipinskyi's philosophy is optimistic. Negative forces are not independent and are ontologically dependent on positive forces.

According to Chizhevskyi, Lipinskyi's spiritual forces are realised through matter. Lipinskyi also speaks only of the existence of the concrete. He does not recognise such concepts as ‘nation in general’ or ‘tradition in general’. According to Chyzhevskyi, a sense of higher values, in particular a sense of respect, is a distinctive characteristic of Lipinskyi's philosophy.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

Religion as a social and historical phenomenon: Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 1974, 263 p.

Evgraf Duluman — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The author argues that the phenomenon of religion - as well as its expressions and categories - differs from the usual subjects of scientific research. With this work, the author seeks to raise the issue and propose a methodology for systematizing and classifying religious phenomena that can only emerge on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. In addition to the problem of scientific knowledge of the phenomenon of religion, the book addresses a number of other issues, including the problems of its social function, sources, crisis and limits of transformation.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I. Methodology of the criticism and the history of knowledge of the phenomenon of religion

Marxist methodology of consideration of the phenomenon of religion

History and state of non-Marxist research of the phenomenon of religion

Chapter II. Religion as a specific form of the social consciousness

Religion in the system of forms of the social consciousness

The object of the religious reflection

Form of the religious reflection and the specificity of religion

Chapter III. Constituent elements of religion

Сoncept of the constituent elements of religion

Conceptual element of religion

Religious cult

Religious feelings

Chapter IV. Genesis and reproduction of religion

Preconditions and causes of the emergence of religion

Conditions of existence and channels of reproduction of religion

Process of the establishment and consolidation of religion in the individual consciousness

Chapter V. Trends in the historical variability of religion

Formation of the primitive religion

Evolution of forms of religious reflection

Modernism and conservatism in religion

Crises and limits of religious transformation

Chapter VI. Social functions of religion

Is religion social or individual?

Religion as an anti-scientific worldview

Limitations of religion as an ideological integrator of social life

Religion as a counter-value

Religion - the opium of the people

Chapter VII. Religion as a historically transient phenomenon

Criticism of the bourgeois futurology of religion

Marxism-Leninism on the regularity of the death of religion

References

Pure jurisprudence. The problem of justice (Trans. from German by Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi): Kyiv, Yunivers, 2004, 496 p.

Hans Kelsen; Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of the book is to ensure the autonomy, ‘purity’, of jurisprudence. Pure jurisprudence should not take any political position, because its essence is to be purified ‘from all political ideology and the influences of the natural sciences’. Among other things, the author contrasts pure jurisprudence with natural law, because natural law is based on metaphysics.

Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda. Ukrainian philosopher of the eighteenth century: New York, Ukrayinska Pravoslavna Tserkva v Z.D.A., Naukovo-bohoslovskyi instytut, 1955, 36p.

Anatol Kotovych — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The work presents biographical information about the life of Hryhorii Skovoroda and his reflections on the times in which he lived. The author describes Skovoroda's youth, his school years, his first travels, his experience as a teacher, his life in Kharkiv, etc. In the author's opinion, the facts from the biography should not point to the philosopher's ‘eccentricity’ (as some Russian authors hint at), but instead can emphasise the image of a protester against the negative processes of transformation of the Ukrainian character that were taking place in Ukraine at that time under the influence of the new order brought by Moscow.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

Essays on the History of Modern German Philosophy: Kyiv, Tsentr navchalnoyi literatury, 2006, 572 p.

Yurii Kushakov — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The textbook highlights the key features of the doctrines of German philosophers of the Modern period. In particular, the philosophical system of Leibniz, the philosophy of law and philosophy of religion of Kant, Fichte's ethics, the philosophy of nature and aesthetic dialectic of Schelling, the doctrine of ‘removal’ in the historical and philosophical process, the dialogical nature of philosophical truth of Feuerbach, etc. are analysed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the problem of the internal unity of the philosopher's personality and his doctrine. Kushakov refutes a number of stereotypes that were widespread in Soviet times in assessing the ideas of German philosophers. The ambitious goal of the author of the textbook is not only to describe the philosophical systems of thinkers, which is typical for publications of this type, but also to attempt to reactualise the key ideas of these philosophies.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction. Peculiarities of the German philosophical spirit

Part I. Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Essay 1. Gottfried Leibniz

Essay 2: Christian Wolff

Part II. German classical philosophy

Essay 1. The concept of ‘German classical philosophy’

Historical significance

Social and historical background of the formation

Sources of ideas

Unity and contradiction

Essay 2: Immanuel Kant

Man and thinker

The ‘pre-critical’ period

The system of ‘critical idealism’

Revolution in philosophy

Theory of knowledge

Practical philosophy

Applied practical philosophy

§ 1. Philosophy of religion

§ 2. Philosophy of Law

§ 3. Philosophy of history

Critique of Judgment (aesthetics and teleology)

The idea of the history of philosophy as a science

Some conclusions

Appendix. The concept of ‘thing in itself’

Essay 3: Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Genesis of the doctrine and difficulties and misconceptions in its understanding)

From Kant to Fichte

§ 1. Carl Leonhard Reinhold – systematiser and populariser of Kantian philosophy. ‘Elementary Philosophy’

§ 2. Gottlob Ernst Schulze's ‘New Scepticism’

§ 3. ‘Critical scepticism’ by Salomon Maimon

§ 4. ‘The Doctrine of the Point of View by Jakob Sigismund Beck

The personality of Fichte

Fichte's epoch

The initial intuition. The tasks of philosophy

Essay 4. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Natural philosophy

Is a philosophy of nature possible today?

Dialectic as a logical and aesthetic phenomenon

Essay 5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The source and mystery of Hegel's philosophy. ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’

On the criticism of Hegel's methodology (Application of dialectic as a problem)

On the critique of Hegel's conception of the relation between philosophy and history of philosophy

Essay 6. Ludwig Feuerbach

Wozu Ludwig Feuerbach?

Feuerbach as a historian of philosophy:

§ 1. The theory of the historical and philosophical process

§ 2. Methodology of historical and philosophical research

§ 3. Analysis of the philosophical doctrines of Descartes and Spinoza

§ 4. Presentation, development and criticism of Leibniz's philosophy

Appendix. Feuerbach

Essay 7. Karl Marx and the end of classical German philosophy

Methodological principles of analysis and evaluation of Marx's worldview

The personality of Marx

The contradictions of the worldview

Part III. Lev Shestov and the ‘’after‘’ of classical German philosophy

Essay 1. Contrasts of thinking: Aristotle, Hegel and Shestov

Essay 2. The historical and philosophical project of Lev Shestov. Historian of philosophy or ‘Fan of spiritual hooliganism’?

Lessons from L. Shestov

Appendix. Historical and philosophical projects of the XX century: results, problems, prospects

Afterword

Foundations of Ukrainian Nationalism: “na Chuzini” [Abroad], 1951, 128 p.

Yurii Boyko-Blokhin — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The author describes the main elements of the nationalist worldview. In his opinion, a holder of such a worldview has a number of value orientations on which to base his or her attitude to reality and to act directly. The definition of these guidelines is fundamental for a clear definition of the concept of nationalism. This paper is the result of an analysis of literature and documents related to the nationalist movement. Chronologically, this consideration is limited to the end of the Second World War.

CONTENTS

Preface

What nationalism is not

Modern Ukrainian nationalism is not «Dontsovism»

Ideological foundations of Ukrainian nationalism

The Nation and the World

The Nation and the Individual

The Theory of the Third Rome in the Moscow Orthodox Church after the Last War: Paris, Vydannia pershoi ukrainskoi drukarni u Frantsii [Publication of the First Ukrainian Printing House in France], 1957, 30 p.

Yurii Boyko-Blokhin — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In his work, Blokhin analyzes the position of the Moscow Orthodox Church in the USSR that emerged after World War II. He calls the relationship between church and state “a symphony”: the autocratic structure of the church aids in fulfilling the political needs and objectives of the Communist Party of the USSR. One of the Moscow Orthodox Church's tasks in international politics was to present the USSR as a global center of spirituality, for which the theory of the "Third Rome" was actively utilized.

The main manifestations of the narrative of "Moscow as the Third Rome" are the ideas of: 1) the divine chosenness of the Russian people; 2) the superiority of the Moscow Orthodox Church over all other Christian denominations and Orthodox parishes; and 3) the global triumph of the Russian spirit and Russian Orthodoxy. Blokhin believes this mythologem is effective, but threatening to the spiritual life of Europe.

Dialectical materialism and the concrete sciences: Kyiv, Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1961, 79 p.

Ivan Golovakha — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The brochure shows the importance of materialist dialectics as a general methodology for specific sciences, especially natural sciences, and attempts to demonstrate the scientific, practical, and political significance of Marxists and representatives of natural science of the time; the author criticizes various forms of idealism in natural science of the time from the standpoint of Marxism-Leninism.

CONTENTS

Section I. The subject of Marxist philosophy and of the natural sciences

The subject of Marxist philosophy

The subject of the natural sciences

The relationship between natural science and Marxist philosophy

Section II. Materialist dialectics and methods of concrete sciences

Dialectics is a universal method of cognition and revolutionary change of the world

Special methods of concrete sciences

The relationship between dialectics and the methods of the concrete sciences

Section III. The significance of the union of philosophy and natural science

Communism and the State: Kyiv, State Publishing House of Political Literature of the Ukrainian SSR, 1963, 56 p.

Ivan Golovakha — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this work, which is part of the series ‘Fundamentals of Scientific Communism’, the author examines the laws of the emergence and development of the state. The brochure focuses on the transformation of the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat into a nationwide state and the development of socialist statehood into public communist self-government.

CONTENTS

The origin and essence of the state

The state of the dictatorship of the proletariat and its historical mission

The Soviet state of the people

From socialist statehood to communist statehood self-government

The struggle between materialism in Ukraine in the XIX century: Kyiv, Naukova Dumka [Scientific thought], 1964, 244 p.

Volodymyr Yevdokymenko (ред.) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The collection covers certain issues of the history of philosophical and sociological thought in Ukraine in the XIX century, in particular the ethical views of Lesia Ukrainka and Pavlo Hrabovskyi, the aesthetic views of Ivan Franko, the influence of Taras Shevchenko's work on the worldview of Ostap Terletskyi, the ideas of P. M. Liubovskyi, Diderot, and others.

CONTENTS

V. F. Perederiі. Ivan Franko on the process of artistic creation

M. S. Denysenko. The place of P. M. Liubovskyi in the development of philosophy in Ukraine in the first quarter of the XIX century

V. I. Hubenko. From the history of idealistic philosophy in Ukraine

I. P. Golovakha. Ethical issues in the ideological legacy of Lesia Ukrainka

V. F. Bezpalchyi. Ethical views of P. A. Grabovskyi

Ie. V. Proniuk. T. Shevchenko and O. Terletskyi

C. H. Lavrov. Denis Diderot and Ukrainian cultural figures

S. M. Zhdanov. On some of M. O. Morozov's connections with Ukraine

S. O. Matviienko. On the natural science views of M. O. Maksymovych

V. S. Horskyi. On the study of interrelations in the philosophical legacy of ukrainian revolutionists-democrats

Literature

Russian Populism as a Source of Leninism-Stalinism: Munich, Independent Association for the Study of Soviet Theory and Practice on National Issues, 1959, 87 p.

Yurii Boiko-Blokhin — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The main objective of this study is to uncover the genetic link between Leninism and populism. Blokhin argues that both movements are stages in a unified synthesis of Russian spiritual life. He notes that the defining traits of Bolshevism were inherited from Russian populism, including profound amoralism, the denial of individual development, and the simplification of culture. The author also describes the differences between Russian and Ukrainian populism, clearly distinguishing them.

Keywords

Bolshevism, political philosophy, social philosophy

Contents

Preface
The interpenetration of marxism and populism in Russia
Populist and bolshevik amoralism
Populist nihilism and bolshevism
The populist and bolshevik approach to individual issues
Russian peculiarities in the bolshevik and populist approach to religion
Populism and bolshevism in light of religious consciousness
Russian messianism in populism and bolshevism
Totalitarianism of populists and bolsheviks
Organizational principles of populists and bolsheviks
Revolutionary methods of populists and bolsheviks
The influence of populism on the October Revolution
Conclusions
Summary

Marxism-Leninism is the Battle Banner of Millions: Kyiv, Ukrainian Publishing House of Political Literature, 1948, 31 p.

Ivan Golovakha — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of the work is to establish a narrative complimentary to Marxism-Leninism. The author, in a characteristically apologetic manner, interprets the historical process of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in terms of Marxism, criticising both views opposed to Marxism and ideologically closer, ‘wrong’ socialists, focusing on Marx's version of socialism, which the Soviet leaders inherited, as the most effective and non-alternative.

Lesia Ukrainka: Worldview-Philosophical View: Кyiv, Ukrainskyi tsentr dukhovnoi kultury [Ukrainian Centre for Spiritual Culture], 2000, 186 p.

Ada Bychko — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Lesia Ukrainka's diverse and complex works can be considered at the level of worldview and philosophical analysis, which is what the author of this book offers. Such an approach makes it possible to identify and trace the main directions of the poet's search for the problems of national identity.

CONTENTS

Section I

The way to yourself

Section II

The word is a weapon

Section III

The drama of ideas in Lesia Ukrainka's work

Section IV

The abyss of the spirit in the grip of the body

Development of historical materialism by V. I. Lenin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Kyiv, State Publishing House of Political Literature of the Ukrainian SSR, 1960, 160 p.

Ivan Golovakha, Mariia Zlotina — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The authors describe the basic principles of the Marxist doctrine of history, its reception and development by Lenin, and the connection between historical materialism and the understanding of the nature of revolutionary processes, the formation of socialist consciousness among the working class, etc.

CONTENTS

Preface

Section I. Lenin on the class essence and ideological content of the narodism and ‘economism’

The economic content and political programme of the narodism
Social roots and ideological sources of ‘economism’

Section II. Lenin's defence and further development of the Marxist doctrine of the determining role of social being in relation to social consciousness

Lenin's development of the materialist understanding of history and the scientific method of sociological research
Lenin's critique of the subjective sociology of the narodism
Development and specification of the most important categories of historical materialism

Section III. Development of the Marxist theory of class struggle and revolution

Lenin on the class struggle as a political struggle, on the relationship between reform and revolution
Lenin's analysis of the historical conditions of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is an example of the creative development of Marxism. Lenin's doctrine of the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois-democratic revolution

Section IV. Lenin on the role of the subjective factor in the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat

Patterns of formation of socialist consciousness and its role in the revolutionary struggle
The role of the ideologue in the labour movement the Party - the ideological leader and organiser of the revolutionary labour movement

Section V. The struggle against revisionism is the most important task of the Marxist-Leninist parties

Lenin's struggle against Russian and international opportunism and defence of revolutionary Marxism
Modern revisionism is the enemy of Marxism-Leninism

Responsibility for the future from a global perspective. The relevance of Hans Jonas’s philosophy and ethics of discourse (Transl. from German By A. M. Yermolenko): Kyiv, Stylos, 2014, 157 р.

Dietrich Böhler ; Anatolii Yermolenko — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ukrainian translation of Dietrich Böhler's work "Zukunftsverantwortung in globaler Perspektive: zur Aktualität von Hans Jonas und der Diskursethik" ["Responsibility for the future from a global perspective. The relevance of Hans Jonas’s philosophy and ethics of discourse"] by Anatoliy Yermolenko.

The requirement of rationality. The legacy of René Descartes in the world of contemporary culture: Kyiv, Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, 1996, 117 p.

Yevhen Bystrytskyi (ed.) — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This publication is based on the materials of the international conference dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the birth of René Descartes "The Legacy of René Descartes in the World of Contemporary Culture", organized by the Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, the Faculty of humanities of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Department of cultural philosophy of the Institute of philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ukrainian scientific journal "Political thought". The publication is the first attempt to generalise the significance of Descartes' philosophical and scientific legacy for European and national culture made by contemporary Ukrainian philosophers.

This collection marks the beginning of the publishing activity of the Ukrainian philosophical foundation.

CONTENTS

Descartes' thought in the history of philosophy and science

Cartesian metaphysics and scientific knowledge

Valentyn HUSEV

The problem of obviousness in Cartesianism

Oleg KHOMA (Vinnytsia)

From ‘Sola Fide’ to ‘Ego cogito’

Serhii PROLEIEV

From ‘Ego cogito’ to ‘Contract social’

Victoriia SHAMRAI

From the history of world Cartesianism. Feuerbach

Yurii KUSHAKOV

Descartes' Doubt and Kant's Criticism

MINAKOV

Descartes, who is wiser than we are,

or Descartes's rationalism and the modern world view

Ivan TSEKHMISTRO (Kharkiv)

Descartes and the development of classical natural science

Oleksandra RUBANETS

Descartes' cosmism and modern cosmology

Vasyl SHUBIN, Yevhen SMOTRITSKYI (Dnipro)

Analytical geometry of René Descartes

Maksym BYSTRYTSKYI

Descartes' legacy in the philosophy and culture of the twentieth century
Descartes and the search for metaphysics in the twentieth century

Heorgii ZAIICHENKO (Dnipro)

Husserl's phenomenology and the crisis of the Cartesian ideal of scientific knowledge

Stepan KOSHARNYI

Existentio-hermeneutical reception of Cartesian cogito

Roman KOBETS

Transformation of the Cartesian cogito in the existentialism of J.-P. Sartre

Vitalii LIAKH

René Descartes and postmodern philosophy

Valerii ZAGORODNIUK

The metaphysics of the ‘road=journey’: the landscape of Descartes' thought in the context of the landscape of 17th century Europe

Marina SAVELIEVA

Two tendencies in the philosophical legacy of René Descartes

Marat VERNIKOV (Lviv)

III. Descartes and social rationality

The ambiguity of René Descartes' understanding of rationality

Anatolii MALIVSKYI (Dnipro)

Cartesian tradition and paradoxes of social rationality

Anatolii YERMOLENKO

The fate of method in the social world

Victor BURLACHUK

Cultural-historical a priori

Yevhen BYSTRYTSKYI

Cogito: ethical alternatives

Victor MALAKHOV

Descartes on the moral conditionality of the metaphysical

Vitalii ZHADKO (Zaporizhzhia)

Descartes' rationalism and the New European philosophy of history

Tamara YASHCHUK

"Natural Light of Reason" and the "Chthonicisation" of Mythology

Natalia AMELCHENKO

On the transcendental foundations of the sense

Eduard SHERBENKO

Introduction to metaphysics (Trans. from Fr. by Yevhen Yavorovskyi): Kolomyia, Halytska nakladnia Yakova Orenshtaina v Kolomyi [Galicia publishing of Yakov Orenshtain in Kolomyia], 1910, 80 p.

Henri Bergson; Yevhen Yavorovskyi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yevhen Yavorovsky's translation of the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson

The Poverty of Historicism (Trans. from Eng. by Vasyl Lisovyi): Kyiv, Abrys, 1994, 192 p.

Karl Popper; Vasyl Lisovyi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The book by Karl Popper, a world-renowned scholar in the field of philosophy of history, provides a reasoned critique of the understanding of history as a process subject to the laws of necessity. The simplicity of the presentation of rather complex problems and the ease of the style make this book accessible not only to scholars but also to anyone interested in the methodology of the social sciences.

CONTENTS

V. Lisovyi – Karl Raymond Popper and his work «The Poverty of Historicism»

A historical note

Preface

Introduction

I. The Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines of Historicism

1. Generalization

2. Experiment

3. Novelty

4. Complexity

5. Inexactitude of Prediction

6. Objectivity and Valuation

7. Holism

8. Intuitive Understanding

9. Quantitative methods

10. Essentialism versus Nominalism

II. The Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines of Historicism

11. Comparison with Astronomy. Long-Term Forecasts and Large-Scale Forecasts

12. The Observational Basis

13. Social Dynamics

14. Historical Laws

15. Historical Prophecy versus Social Engineering

16. The Theory of Historical Development

17. Interpreting versus Planning Social Change

18. Conclusion of the Analysis

III. Criticism of the Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines

19. Practical Aims of this Criticism

20. The Technological Approach to Sociology

21. Piecemeal versus Utopian Engineering

22. The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism

23. Criticism of Holism

24. The Holistic Theory of Social Experiments

25. The Variability of Experimental Conditions

26. Are Generalizations Confined to Periods?

IV. Criticism of the Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines

27. Is there a Law of Evolution? Laws and Trends

28. The Method of Reduction. Causal Explanation. Prediction and Prophecy

29. The Unity of Method

30. Theoretical and Historical Sciences

31. Situational Logic in History. Historical Interpretation

32. The Institutional Theory of Progress

33. Conclusion. The Emotional Appeal of Historicism

Name index

The Open Society and Its Enemies in II vol. Vol. I. In the grip of Plato's spell (Trans. from Eng. by Oleksandr Kovalenko): Osnovy, Kyiv, 1994, 444 p.

Karl Popper; Oleksandr Kovalenko — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

«The Open Society and Its Enemies» is, according to Bertrand Russell, a work of great importance, worth reading for its brilliant critique of the enemies of democracy, both ancient and modern.

This glorious work is indispensable for students, political scientists, and politicians, as the author explores not only ancient Greek philosophy and modern philosophical movements from Kant to the present day, but also examines the art of government, the history of the development and decline of Greek democracies, and provides a model of scientific logic and critical analysis. Karl Popper focuses on the task of the social sciences, analyses the history of fascism and communism, and criticises the historicism of Plato, Hegel and Marx. With this masterfully written book, the author makes a significant contribution to the development of democratic ideas.

CONTENTS

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Acknowledgements

Preface

In the grip of Plato's spell

The myth of origin and predestination

Chapter 1. Historicism and the myth of predestination

Chapter 2. Heraclitus

Chapter 3. Plato's theory of ‘forms’ or ‘ideas’

Plato's descriptive sociology

Chapter 4. Change and rest

Chapter 5. Nature and convention

Plato's political programme

Chapter 6. Totalitarian justice

Chapter 7. The principle of leadership

Chapter 8: The reign of the philosopher

Chapter 9. Aestheticism, the idea of perfection and utopianism

The basis of the Platonic struggle

Chapter 10. Open society and its enemies

Notes

Appendices

I Plato and Geometry (1957)

II Dating the Theaetetus (1961)

III Reply to a critic (1965)

Buddha and Buddhism (Trans. from French by I. Franko): Lviv, «Ukrainsko-ruska vydavnycha spilka», 1905, 147 p.

Léon Feer; Ivan Franko — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ukrainian translation of Leon Feer’s (French orientalist) buddhological articles, made by the famous Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.

Feer’s original articles were written for the «Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts» (Vol. 7, 579-609). Before Ukrainian translation was released as a separate edition, it was published in parts in the first two volumes of the periodical «Zhyttie i Slovo» (1894).

Benket. (Symposium). A conversation about love (Transl. from Gr. By I. Ohonovskyi): Kolomyia: Nakladom «Zahalnoyi knyhozbirnyi» [Kolomyia: Printed by the ‘General Book Collection’], 1921, 135 р.

Plato; Ilarion Ohonovskyi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ukrainian translation of Plato's dialogue Συμπόσιον was made by Ukrainian philologist and translator Ilarion Ohonovskyi. The translation includes an introduction by the translator, in which he briefly describes the phenomenon of the Sophists and examines the figures of Socrates and Plato.

The book was published in parts. The text on p. 57 contains an editorial note explaining this specificity. Accordingly, the file contains several title pages with different dates, each of which presumably belonged to a different printed part.

Revolt of masses (Trans. from Sp. by Wolfram Burghardt): ODFFU [Organisation for the Defence of the Four Freedoms of Ukraine], New York, 1965, 158 p.

José Ortega y Gasset; Wolfram Burghardt — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Wolfram Burghardt's translation of Ortega y Gasset's work in the diaspora. It will later be included in the collected works of Ortega y Gasset, published by «Osnovy».

CONTENTS

Three phases of Ortega's thinking

The first part – Revolt of the masses

The invasion of the masses
The rise of the historical level

III. The level of the era

The growth of life
Evidence from statistics
Starting the mass analysis

VII. Noble life and simple life, or effort and powerlessness

VIII. Why do the masses interfere in everything and why do they interfere only by force?

Primitivism and technology
Primitivism and history
The era of the smug lord

XII. The barbarism of civilisation

XIII. The greatest danger is the state

Part Two – Who Rules the World?

XIV. Who rules the world?

We come to the inherent question

Notes

The Open Society and Its Enemies in II vol. Vol. II A flash of prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the followers (Trans. from Eng. By Oleksandr Butsenko): Osnovy, Kyiv, 1994, 494 p.

Karl Popper; Oleksandr Butsenko — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

«The Open Society and Its Enemies» is, according to Bertrand Russell, a work of great importance, worth reading for its brilliant critique of the enemies of democracy, both ancient and modern.

CONTENTS

The Emergence of Oracle Philosophy

Chapter 11. Aristotelian roots of Hegelianism

Chapter 12. Hegel and the new tribalism

Marx's method

Chapter 13. Marx's sociological determinism

Chapter 14. The autonomy of sociology

Chapter 15. Economic historicism

Chapter 16. Classes

Chapter 17. Legal and social systems

Marx's prophecy

Chapter 18. The coming of socialism

Chapter 19. The social revolution

Chapter 20. Capitalism and its fate

Chapter 21. Evaluation of prophecy

Marx's ethics

Chapter 22. The moral theory of historicism

The followers

Chapter 23. Sociology of knowledge

Chapter 24. Oracle Philosophy and the Rebellion Against Reason

Conclusion

Chapter 25. Does History Make Sense?

Notes

Appendices (1961, 1965)

Name index

Subject index

Origin of religion and the faith of God (trans. from English by P. Morozykha): Kyiv-Berlin, Socialist scientific publishing house «Znannia to Syla», 1922, 179 p.

Heinrich Cunow; P. Morozykha — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Ukrainian translation of the «Der Ursprung der Religion und des Gottesglaubens», written by German sociologist, historian, ethnographer, and Marxist theorist Heinrich Cunow.

Laokoon (Trans. from Germ. by Yevhen Popovych): Kyiv, Mystetstvo, 1968, 290 p.

Gottgold Ephraim Lessing; Yevhen Popovych — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A treatise by the German aesthetic theorist, written after European mankind rediscovered the ancient sculpture of the Hellenistic period.

The Origins of Totalitarianism (Trans. from Eng. by Volodymyr Verloka, Dmytro Horchakov): Kyiv, Duh i Litera, 2005, 584 p.

Hannah Arendt; Volodymyr Verloka, Dmytro Horchakov — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

Combining a theoretical and structural approach with a historical and genetic one, Arendt thoroughly examines the main sources of totalitarianism – antisemitism, which went through numerous stages of development, and imperialism, which created another specific phenomenon of the twentieth century – the crowd. The book examines the peculiarities of mass terror, the question of the specific historical «share of historical responsibility» of various components of society, the metamorphosis of the principle of class and party, and the specific role of the bureaucracy and party elite.

CONTENTS

Hannah Arendt's warning

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I: Antisemitism

Preface

Chapter One. Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense

Chapter Two. The Jews, the Nation-State, and the Birth of Antisemitism

The Equivocalities of Emancipation and the Jewish

State Banker

Early Antisemitism
The First Antisemitic Parties
Leftist Antisemitism
The Golden Age of Security

Chapter Three. The Jews and Society

Between Pariah and Parvenu
The Potent Wizard
Between Vice and Crime

Chapter Four. The Dreyfus Affair

The Facts of the Case
The Third Republic and French Jewry
Army and Clergy Against the Republic
The People and the Mob
The Jews and the Dreyfusards
The Pardon and Its Significance

Part II. Imperialism

Preface

Chapter Five. The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie

Expansion and the Nation-State
Power and the Bourgeoisie
The Alliance Between Mob and Capital

Chapter Six. Race-Thinking Before Racism

A "Race" of Aristocrats Af;ainst a "Nation" of Citizens
Race Unity as a Substitute for National Emancipation
The New Key to History
The "Rights of Englishmen" vs. the Rights of Men

Chapter Seven. Race and Bureaucracy

The Phantom World of the Dark Continent
Gold and Race
The Imperialist Character

Chapter Eight. Continental Imperialism: the Pan-Movements

Tribal Nationalism
The Inheritance of Lawlessness
Party and Movement

Chapter Nine. The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man

The "Nation of Minorities" and the Stateless People
The Perplexities of the Rights of Man

Part III. Totalitarianism

Chapter Ten. A Classless Society

The Masses
The Temporary Alliance Between the Mob and the Elite

Chapter eleven. The Totalitarian Movement

Totalitarian Propaganda
Totalitarian Organisation

Chapter twelve. Totalitarianism in Power

The So-called Totalitarian State
The Secret Police
Total Domination

Chapter thirteen. Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government

Name and subject index

Duh i Litera, 2010, No21: Kyiv: Duh i Litera, 2010, 335 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov, Leonid Finberg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

СONTENTS

PERSONALITY: VASYL GROSSMAN

From the editors

Anne-Marie Pelletier — The power of kindness against the abomination

Alexis Berelowitch — Totalitarian systems in Vasyl Grossman’s works

Michel Parfenov — Radically intolerable. From the Black Book to Life and Fate

Ivan Dzyuba — The one who said the ‘forbidden words’

Victor Malakhov — Vasyl Grossman: the truth of bitterness

Volodymyr Panchenko — Vasyl Grossman and the “demons”. The opposition "freedom – constraint" in the Vasyl Grossman’s novel “Forever Flowing"

Liudmyla Dymers’ka — Thomas Mann and Vasyl Grossman: the lessons of confessional fiction. “The culture of conscience” and the principle of immanence

ETHOS

Ivan Dziuba — Mykola Shlemkevych

Mykola Shlemkevych — The prehistory of Halychyna

The Forms of Disruption

Common comparison

EUROPEAN CONTRAVERSIONS

Marc Sagnol — On the verge of Europe: Chernivtsi near Sadhora

THE KYIV CIRCLE

Vasyl Zenkovs’ky — The eighteenth century. The turning point in the church consciousness. The philosophy of Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Svitlana Kuzmina — The upbringing philosophy of Vasyl Zenkovs’ky and the Kyiv academic tradition in late 19^th and early 20^th cc

DIALOGUE

Larysa Vladychenko — The idea of a ‘religious’ dialogue as a realm of mutual relations of God and man in the works by Martin Buber

SOFIA-LOGOS

Olga Sedakova — The apology of the irrational. Sergey Averintsev

WITNESSES OF EPOCHS

Ludmyla Siryk — Ethical and existential aspects in the poetry of the Kiev Neoclacissist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Duh i Litera, 2006, No15-16: Kyiv: Joint publishing project of 1+1 TV channel and Duh i Litera publishing house, 2006, 532 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov (co-ed.), Leonid Finberg (co-ed.) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

СONTENTS

PAUL RICOEUR: IN MEMORIAM

Kostiantyn Sigov — Paul Ricoeur: Memory, History, Gratitude

Charles Taylor — Philosophy without borders

Gabriel Marcel, Paul Ricoeur — On the intellectual research (conversation)

Jean Starobinsky — Friendship that unites

Paul Ricoeur — Esthetic experience

UKRAINE TODAY

“Orange Victory”. Answering the questionnaire of the “Duh і Litera” journal: T. Vozniak, O. Gnatiuk, Y. Zaharov, J. Zisels, O. Irvanets, V. Kipiani, M. Kotsiubynska, M. Marynovych, O. Paskhaver, Y. Rashkovsky, S. Rechitsky, Y. Sverstiuk, D. Stus, T. Suhorukova, father M. Shpoliansky

Leonid Finberg — Afterword

AD FORTES: UNIVERSITY OF "KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY" — 390^TH ANNIVERSARY

Vilen Gorsky — Idea of university in “KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY” interpretation

Sergey Averintsev — AD FONTES!

Petro Kudriavtsev — Idea of St. Sophia

SERGIY KRYMSKY: LIFE AS QUEST OF SENCE

Philosophy as lifestyle. Interview with Sergiy Borysovych Krymsky

Myroslav Popovych — A Word about Sergiy Krymsky

Viktor Malahov — Philosophy “Against the light” or what is postontology?

Vilen Gorsky — "Under the sign of Sophia"

Yuriy Ishchenko — The concept of “Metahistory” of Sergiy Krymsky and the discourse of the philosophy of history by Paul Ricoeur

Anatoliy Yermolenko — Universe of value and sense and universe of discourse

Sergiy Kurbatov — “Going upstairs, that brings you downstairs”: paradoxes of metahistory

Tetyana Chaika — Energy of soul

INTERNATIONAL AVERINTSEV LECTURES

From the heritage of Sergey Averintsev:

Hopes and anxiety

Biography and hagiography

Olga Sedakova — My first meeting with Averintsev

Andriy Baumeister — The orthodox thinker in the European culture context

PERSONALITY

Ivan Yurkovych — Roman Pontiff

Vladimir Zelinsky — History and person. Knight of faith. To the portrait of John-Paul II

Olga Sedakova — Totus tuus. In memory of Pope John-Paul II

CULTURA

Iza Hruslynska — Advantage of giving a hand

Conversation with Sophia Herz

VOCABULAIRE: DICTIONARY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHIES

Barbara Cassin — Presentation

Barbara Cassin and Philippe Raynaud — Two paradigms: “Freedom” and “Liberty”

Philippe Raynaud — Civil society

Legal state

Charles Malamoud — Mir: world/peace

Andriy Vasylchenko — Freedom/Liberty

Andriy Repa — Barbara Cassin: Effects of the linguistic policy of “Dictionary of European Philosophies”

Yevgeniya Kononenko — Paradoxes of untranslatable

ETHOS

Antony Blum — Question and doubt

Kallistos Ware — My enemy and aid: body in the Greek Christianity

Sergiy Bortnyk — Bishop Kallistos Ware: from ecclesiology to anthropology

Boris Bobrinskoy — Love to enemies in Gospels

Olexander Dobroer — Concept of “good person” in the system of esthetic anthropology of Nykolay Gogol

Henry de Lubac — Dimensions of mystery

HISTORICAL RESEARCHES

Reinhart Koselleck — Perplexity and shifts of three temporal dimensions

Jean-Paul Willaime — Europe and religions

WITNESSES OF EPOCHS

Jonathan Sutton — Life way of Vladimir Solovyev

Olga Sedakova — Address at the presentation of the award of Vladimir Solovyev

Courage and after it. Remarks of the translator

Taras Ivasiutyn — Francois Mauriac as a factor of creative laboratory of the European comparative study of literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Yevgeniya Deich — The living flesh of the epoch

Taras Ivasiutyn — World of philosophical ideas of Paul Celan

Vitaliy Darensky — Phenomenology of Christian ethos

Polina Poberezkina — Slavic studies in “Yegupets” magazin

Annotations

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Duh i Litera, 2003, No11-12: Kyiv: Duh i Litera, 2003, 472 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov (co-ed.), Leonid Finberg (co-ed.) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

UKRAINE TODAY

Nataliia Chernysh – One, two, or twenty-two Ukraines. A sociological analysis of social identities of representatives of three generations of residents of Lviv and Donetsk

Yaroslav Hrytsak – On the sense and senselessness of nationalism in Ukraine

Oksana Malanchuk – Social identification in contemporary Ukraine: 1994-1999

EDUCATION AND FAMILY IN POST-ATHEISTIC SOCIETIES

Serhii Averintsev – Some problems of transmitting cultural and doctrinal tradition in contemporary conditions

Nikita Struve – Marriage as prophetic service

Jonathan Sutton – What attitudes influence the educational situation in the country?

Bernard Dupir – Family and atheistic society yesterday and today. The teachings of the church fathers

Mykola Eterovych – Cooperation between the state and the church in the education for the benefit of the family

Philippe de Suremain – Teaching the basics of religion in the secular education system of France

Dietmar Stüdemann – On religious tolerance in the open society

Mykola Makar – Raising an orthodox family in the Christian faith in a post-atheist society

Viktor Malakhov – The calling of discipleship

ACADEMY

Georges Niva – Parks and gardens of Europe

Petro Kudriavtsev – Educational journeys of Kyiv Academy students abroad in the 18th century

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Serhii Krymskyi – Philosophy: an adventure of the spirit or a liturgy of meaning?

Andrii Vasylchenko – The problem of intentionality of action in contemporary analytical philosophy

WITNESSES OF THE EPOCHS

Jonathan Sutton – The secular service of Ursula Fleming

Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska – There was so much goodness in my life

Anna Shmainova-Velykanova – On the new martyrs

Maksym Striha – Ukrainian literary translation

ETHOS

Charles Taylor – Inevitable structures of meaning

Valentyn Kulinichenko, Svitlana Viekovshyna – Life and death in the context of bioethics

SOFIA - LOGOS (AVERINTSEV DICTIONARY)

Serhii Averintsev – Christianity in the 20th century

Serhii Averintsev – Dictionary

SYNDESMOS

Anthony Bloom – Spiritual journeys. Bartimaeus

Kallistos Ware – God as mystery

Paul Evdokimov – The divine love of God and the mystery of His silence

Job Geccha – Is the concept of a “national church” permissible from the perspective of orthodox ecclesiology?

OXFORD SCHOOL

C.S. Lewis – The burial of the great myth

PERSONALITY

Olha Sedakova – Reflections on method

Mikhail Gasparov – From conversations with S.S. Averintsev

Serhii Averintsev – The ontology of truth as the inner spring of Vladimir Solovyov's thought

DIALOGUES

Oleksii Zhuravskyi – Christians and Muslims: from confrontation to dialogue

Louis Massignon – The three prayers of Abraham

CIVIL SOCIETY

Oleksandr Pohorilyi – The eternal modernity of the classics

Ferdinand Tönnies – The theory of community

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Symbolism of the Human Body (Trans. from Fr. by Zoya Borysyuk): Kyiv, Znannya-Press, 2003, 566 p.

Annick de Souzenelle; Zoya Borysyuk — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

This book is a combination of modern and archaic approaches to understanding the human body. The author sees a profound analogy between the structure of the human body and the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, finds symbolism of the functions of the body organs in the words of the ancient Hebrew language, reveals the unity of ancient mystical knowledge inherent in all ancient peoples and cultures, and mystical aspirations for the hidden truth. This approach allows for a deeper understanding of the human phenomenon and the search for a single source of the dictates of the mind and heart.

CONTENTS

Orthodox theologian Annick de Souzenelle

Preface

Introduction

Chapter I. The Mi and the Ma, or That Which Is Within and That Which Is Without

Chapter II. Symbols and Myths: The Symbolic Dimension of the Hebrew Language

Chapter III. From the Sword to the Tree of Life: On Good and Evil

Chapter IV. From the Tree of Life to the Sefirotic Tree

Chapter V. From the Sefirotic Tree to the Pattern of the Body

The Body of Man, the likeness of the Body of God
The inner and outer world in relation to Man
The structure of the body according to the picture of the Sefirotic Tree

Chapter VI. The Two Sides of the Body; the Spinal Column

Chapter VII. Malkhut I: The Feet

The feet of the Man is wounded
Oedipus, or swollen foot
Achilles, or vulnerable foot
Jacob, or «Divine Heel». Healing of the wound
Christ washes the feet of His apostles

Chapter VIII. Malkuth II

Knees
Feets

Chapter IX. Yesod, Sexuality, and Circumcision

Circumcision
Birth versus creation

Chapter X. The Hod - Netsah – Yesod triangle, or genitourinary plexus

The flood
The Exodus of the Jews to Egypt
The labyrinth of Knossos

Chapter XI: Going through the Gate of Men

Jacob's struggle with the angel
The Baptism of Christ, or the reversal of energies
The temptation of Christ in the desert. Passage through the Gate of each of us

а) Enjoyment of the Name

b) Possession of the Name
c) Power
The bodily posture associated with passing through the Gates of People
Approach to the mystery of death experienced before and after passing through the Gate of Men

Chapter XII. After Passing Through the Door of Men: the Life of the Body in the Din – Hesed – Hod – Netsah Quadrangle

Kidneys
Bone and blood
Navel and heart
Forge

а) Stomach

b) Fire
c) Liver
d) Gallbladder
e) Pancreas
f) Spleen
g) Heart
h) Lungs

Chapter XIII. The Great Work: Wedding Mother Earth, or the Nigredo

The story of Job איוב
Jonah
Descent into hell in Greek myths
Hell in «Bardo-Thodöl»
The hells of schizophrenia
Suffering
Descent into the Hell of Christ

Chapter XIV. Passing through the Gate of the Gods: The Albedo

The Eagle. Arms – Shoulders – Collarbones
Dante: paradise
The myth of Prometheus
False work in White, or the conquest of the Golden Fleece
The Resurrection of Christ. The glorified body

Chapter XV. Access to the Upper Triangle: Keter-Hokhmah-Binah; the Neck; the Seven Cervical Vertebrae and the Nine Angelic Hierarchies; the Thyroid; the Medulla Oblongata

Chapter XVI: The Ear and the Tongue; Listening and the Word; the Red Phase of the Work

The ear
The mouth
Saliva

Chapter XVII. The Teeth

Chapter XVIII. The Nose and Cheeks

Chapter XIX. The Eyes

The story of Tovit
The eye in the forehead: the emerald
Tears

Chapter XX. The Skull

The brain
Cerebellum
Forehead – Horn
Hair and crown

Chapter XXI: The image of Christ in the oval

Conclusions

Thirty years have passed

Alphabetical index

Duh i Litera, 2012, No24: Kyiv: Duh i Litera, 2012, 300 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov, Leonid Finberg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

СONTENTS

VOCABULAIRE: DICTIONARY OF EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHIES

Maryna Rudnytska — Dictionary of European Philosophies: a Return to the European Tradition

Pascal David — Angoisse

Fabienne Brugère — Common Sense

Alain Pons — Corso / ricorso

Danielle Cohen-Lévinas — Momente

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Ivan Dziuba — Mykola Kostyantynovych Zerov

LOGOS

James L. Heft — Introduction to Ch. Taylor’s Lecture

Charles Taylor — A Catholic Modernity?

Jean Bethke Elshtain — Augustine and Diversity

RES JUDAICA

Alan Cooper — Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies

Pablo-Isaac Halevi (Kirtchuk) — The Hebrew Language

WITNESSES OF EPOCHS

Roman Mnih — The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer in the Life and Works of Dmytro Chyzhevsky

Oleksandra Toichkina — The Concept of Education in D. Chyzhevsky’s works about Dostoyevsky

Oleksandra Toichkina — A review on the Three-Volume Edition of Chyzhevsky

ETHOS

Jadwiga Mizinska — Indifference

Marta Zambrzycka — Andrey Rublev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Way of Spiritual Pursuits

Marek Kita — Sophiology of Feast - Celebration as a the Appearance of Wisdom

Milan Zust S.J. — Baptism as the Grounds for all Christian Feast

THE KYIV CIRCLE

Yevhen Proskulikov — The 20th Century in the Presentiment of the End

Viktor Andrushko, Stella Gatalska — The Unknown Poet Ivan Velychkovsky: New Dimensions of the Traditional Ukrainian Poetics

SEMINARIUM

Ksenya Kucherova — The Mysticism of Symeon the New Theologian

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Oleh Kotsarev — A Six-Volume Lesson of Benevolent Wisdom

Hanna Pivovar — A Review of the Book: Carpathian Diaspora: the Jews of Subcarpathian Ruthenia and Mukachevo

Duh i Litera, 2006-2007, No17-18: Kyiv: Joint publishing project of 1+1 TV channel and Duh i Litera publishing house, 2006-2007, 549 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov (co-ed.), Leonid Finberg (co-ed.) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

СONTENTS

JERZY GIEDROYC: IN MEMORIAM

Olya Hnatiuk — The Etatisme of Jerzy Giedroyc

Krzysztof Pomian — Aimed on future

Adam Michnik — Meeting Giedroyc

Bohdan Osadczuk — The role of Yerzy Giedroyc in Polish-Ukrainian relations

Jerzy Pomianowski — The man from the other side

Leszek Szaruga — "Culture" and "Future Polish-German relations"

Piotr Wandycz — “Historical notebooks"

Jacek Krawczyk — Jerzy Giedroyc 1906-2000

UKRAINE: CHORNOBYL ACCOUNT

The Questionnaire of Dukh and Litera periodical edition is responded by: Oksana Pakhliovska, Victor Malakhov, Mykola Karpan

UKRAINE TOPOI

Nadiia Nikitenko — "Annunciation in monumental painting of Sophia of Kyiv"

Yaroslav Hrytsak — "Construction of national city: the example of Lviv"

SERHII AVERINTSEV

Volodymyr Zelins’kyi — "S. Averintsev: the experience of creating culture"

Volodymyr Zelins’kyi — "As to the idea of personality and death hour"

Sergei Averintsev — "Distinguishing signs of time: Christian approach towards history"

"Presence of the Everpresent as a paradigm of Christian culture"

Yury Vestel — "Identity, word, name"

EUROPEAN CONTRAVERSIONS

François Furet — "Communism and fascism"

Mikhail Heferman — "Geography and sense of Europe"

Regis Debre — "Technology of influence: ambitions"

OXFORD SCHOOL

Clive Staples Lewis — "Historicism"

PARIS SCHOOL

Olivier Clémant — History and methahistor

Oleksiy Sigov — O. Clémant and M. Berdiaev: connections and contraversions

Michael Plekon — Inner monachism: spiritual life according to P. Evdokimov

Marta Samokishyn — Inner monachism — backtracking to the sources

LOGOS

Kallistos Ware — Orthodox theology in the 21^st century

Vitaly Darensky — Epistemological paradigm of Christian philosophy

DIALOGUE

Lubov Zubova — Kyivan Dialogue with Silvi Germen

SEMINARIUM

Olexandra Mezhevikina — Go home from Kannitferstan!

Anastasia Riabchuk — Not so that it was better before, it is just worse now

Olena Rybiy — Hunting eidoses (“Law and justice” by Paul Recieur)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Oleh Homa — Michel de Montaigne. “Essays” (translated from French by Anatol Perepadia)

Mychailyna Kotsiubynska — Pavlo Yamchuk. “Christian conservatism: spirit, epoch, human being”

Victor Malakhov — V. Mazepa “Culture centrism of Ivan Franko ideology"

Lidia Lozova — D. Gorbachov “Ukrainian vanguard as theorists and publicists"

Marina Bolgarova — Tuptalo Dmytro. Hagiology (translated from slav. by V. Shevchuk)

Victor Malakhov, Tetiana Chaika — Madievsky S.A. “Other Germans"

Valeria Boguslavska — O. Suleimanov. The language of writing. Insight into history — as to the origin of writing and language of Minor mankind

Otmar Andre — Ryhlo, Peter (Hg.): Czernowitz [Europa erlesen]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Duh i Litera, 2004, No13-14: Kyiv: Duh i Litera, 2004-2005, 554 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov (co-ed.), Leonid Finberg (co-ed.) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

IN MEMORY OF AVERINTSEV

Viacheslav Briukhovetskyi – “…And the quiet candle is a clear sign”

Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska – Averintsev in mine/our spiritual world

Olha Sedakova – The word of Averintsev

Andrii Dakhnyi – Averintsev, Vienna, Spitalgasse, or the lesson of openness aginst the backdrop of the Austrian Experience

Serhii Averintsev – The Old Testament as a prophecy of the New: a general problem through the eyes of a translator

Serhii Averintsev – On the spirit of the time and the sense of humor

UKRAINE TODAY

Roman Shporliuk – Creation of modern Ukraine: the western dimension

Maryna Tkachuk – The Kyiv Theological Academy through the eyes of contemporary Ukrainian humanities

WITNESSES OF THE EPOCHS

Hryhorii Konur – Letters to M. Novikova: 1970-1973

Svitlana Alexievich – Paul Virilio – Dialogues about Chernobyl

PERSONALITY

“Hannah Arendt and the reinterpretation of the totalitarian legacy.” Roundtable (V. Skurativskyi, K. Glomozda, et al.)

Kostiantyn Sigov – Resistance to the "terroristic hypothesis" about human: the leitmotif of H. Arendt's philosophy

Leonid Finberg – Hannah Arendt's warning

FRENCH THOUGHT, EUROPE AND THE WORLD

Paul Ricoeur – What should be the new ethos of Europe?

Pierre Manent – Tocqueville: liberalism facing democracy

Philippe Boutry – Dechristianization during the French Revolution and the re-christianization of France in the 19th century

Jean Baubérot – Secularism: French exceptionalism or universal value?

Jean-Marie Valentin – Paul Valéry and the European tradition of the “commerce of the mind”

Pierre Hassner – The significance of September 11th: political-philosophical reflections on the event

PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

Taras Korpalo – “The politics of recognition” by C. Taylor as an example of the position of contemporary Canadian philosophical liberalism

Charles Taylor – The politics of recognition

Andrii Vasylchenko – Charles Taylor on orientation in moral space

Charles Taylor – The self in moral space

ETHOS

“Ethics in education and culture of Ukraine." Roundtable (V. Malakhov, T. Derevyanko, et al.)”

Vaclav Hryniewicz – A man needs hope

Rudolf Schnackenburg – The greatest commandment of love

Vitalii Darenskyi – The ethical-ontological meaning of the category of happiness

SYNDESMOS

Kallistos Ware – Theological education in Scripture and in the church fathers

Volodymyr Zelinskyi – In need of Your Face

Dariia Morozova – Lingua Ignota of Hildegard of Bingen

CIVIC SOCIETY

Paul Ricoeur – C. Geertz on ideology and utopia

Francis Fukuyama – Has history started again?

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Alexander Osypian – Perception of the historical methodology of the Annales school in Ukraine and the USA: comparison and perspectives

Peter Burke – The Annales school in a global perspective

Olha Petrova – Metaphysics of Ukrainian non-figurative art at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Metaphysics of corporeality: concept of body in a philosophical discourse: Kyiv, Naukova dumka, 2001, 340 p.

Olha Homilko — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Synopsis

The book is devoted to one of the leading topics of contemporary philosophical discourse - the problem of corporeality. It is the first systematic work in national philosophy on this issue. It thoroughly analyses the formation of the modern discourse of the body and identifies its main stages, which reflect critical reflection, negation and refutation of the metaphysical principle of human desomatisation inherent in modern philosophy. The fundamental role of corporeality in the constitution of social reality and major socio-cultural phenomena is comprehensively considered. The author's concept takes into account the theoretical achievements of a wide range of contemporary Western studies.

The book has a debatable character and encourages further thinking about the latest transformations and guidelines of philosophical thinking in the early twenty-first century.

CONTENTS

Preface

The Body as a Subject of Western Metaphysics (Instead of an Introduction)

Part I

The Anthropological Turn in Modern Philosophy

The metaphysical rejection of the body in modern philosophy
Opposition to the principle of desomatisation in the philosophy of modernity
Shaking the foundations of the philosophy of self-consciousness and rebellion against rationality in the philosophical search of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Excursion A. Body – Disease – Death (on Kierkegaard's Analytics of the Existential of Despair)

Metaphysical recognition and justification of corporeality in the philosophical research of the first half of the twentieth century.
The Concept of the Body in Philosophical Studies of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.

Part II

Socio-cultural explications of corporeality

Somatic projections of cultural and social forms

Excursion B. Corporeality in the scope of archaic culture

The human body as part of religious experience

Excursion C. Feminist criticism of the Bible

Social structure and anthropological type. The totalitarian demand to renounce one's body and its overcoming

Excursion D. Russian discourse on sexuality and the «Soviet» totalitarian body

Self-identification of the individual: major anthropological events

Excursion E. Cultural repression and the flash image of the child

Three contemporary challenges to corporeality: ecological crisis, virtual reality, feminism

Excursion F. Posthuman bodies: the transformation of cultural stereotypes

Afterword

Notes

References

Duh i Litera, 2002, No9-10: Kyiv: Duh i Litera, 2002, 524 p.

Edited by: Kostiantyn Sigov (co-ed.), Leonid Finberg (co-ed.) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

FAMILY IN THE POST-ATHEISTIC SOCIETIES

Reports at the international conference

Sergius Averintsev – Solidarity of generations as factor of civic freedom

Marina Novicova – Otherology: experience of S.S. Averintsev

Dimitros Kontumas – Reflactions on the basis of family

Mikola Eterovich – Christian family as answer to the modem crisis

Patrick de Laubier – Family and the globalisation problem

Bernard Dulir – Ethics of family and totalitarism

Antoine Arjakovsky – Father Dmitry Klepinin (1904—1944) and memory of him

Viktor Malakhov – On labor of love and family harmony

Volodymyr Zelinsky – The mystery of “common flesh”

Mikola Makar – Solidarity of orthodox families

Bogdan Ogulchansky – Cathedral unity of family and church society

Semen Zaidenberg – Concerning Christ and Church

Galina Sinilo – Marriage and family bonds in the perception of the texts of TaNaKh (Old Testament)

Zinaida Kositska – Family in the bosom of kin

UKRAINE TODAY

Roksana Kharchuk – Revolt of generation

Ivan Dziuba – We have to leave our Ukrainian ghetto

Eugen Sverstiuk – There was nothing neutral at that time

Mihailina Kotsubinska – Seminar devoted to the book “Fixed and Imperishable”

ACADEMIA KYJEVO-MOHYLAEANA

Vilen Horsky – Alma mater of higher education in Ukraine

Opening of the memorial plaque to Glagolev family

Konstiantyn Sigov – Witnesses of the truth

WITNESSES OF THE EPOQUES

Adriano Rokuchi – Heritage of the martyrs

ETHOS

Paul Ricoeur – Love and Justice

Christos Yannaras – Masks of morality and ethos of personality

Olivier Clement – Berdiaev and French thought

Georges Nivat – Europe of metaphysics and potatoes

SYNDESMOS

Hilarion Alfeev – The way of Kallistos Ware

Kallistos Ware – God as Spirit

THE KYIV CIRCLE

Olena Sinkevich – Memories

Igor Blazhkov – The History of music, which I experienced

Igor Blazhkov – Stravinsky on his motherland

CLASSIC

Uliana Golovach – Homeless “Eros” or in search of lost paradise

Plato – The Feast

OXFORD SCHOOL

Sergius Averintsev – Voice to be trusted

C.S. Lewis – Bathos of power

Cheslav Milosh – Hobbit – the hero of XXth century

PERSONALITY

Cheslav Milosh – Attention of grateful interlocutor

Bogdan Osadchuk – Farewell to Yezhi Gerdgoits

Kshishtof Pomian – Yezhi Gerdgoits in the history of Poland

CIVIC SOCIETY

Eugen Rashkovsky – Third world as a problem of world thought, science, and culture

Miroslav Popovich – Modern and Post-Modern

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTENTS

Tolerance and dialogue in the modern world, 2013 No. 7: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2013, 320 p.

V. A. Malakhov, H. P. Kovadlo (eds.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Victor Malakhov – Foreword

Jürgen Habermas – When should we be tolerant? On the competition of the world views, values and theories

Serhii Krymskyi – Tolerance as a civilizational strategy of the 21st century

Victor Malakhov – The problem of incompatibility of cultural values and modern practices of humanity

Victor Pazenok – The axiological world of man

Halyna Kovadlo – Communication with the «other» and tolerance

Mykhailo Babii – Tolerance: essence and problems

Yurii Ishchenko – The gift of tolerance: from restraint to recognition

Liudmyla Sytnichenko – Tolerance, equality, justice in modern philosophical discourse

IIlia Dvorkin – Philosophy of dialogue in search of a path

Yevhenia Bilchenko – The third and nothing: cataphatic and apophatic witness in dialogical relations

Vitalii Liakh – Grounding the ethics of “integral humanism” in the “philosophy of life” and existentialism of J.-P. Sartre

Serhii Yosypenko – Philosophy, religion, modernity: «difficult freedom» by Emmanuel Levinas

Victor Malakhov – The theme of the other: the post-Soviet context

Yevhen Maliarchuk – E. Levinas: the lesson of being «for the other»

Marina Savelieva – Tolerance as a regulator of relations between the church and the state

Tetiana Chaika – Collaboration in the «space of death»: to the question of the essence of the moral conflict of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi

Larysa Karachevtseva – Notes to the philosophy of humanity in the era of disappearing senses

Oleh Bilyi – National state, power and establishment of infra-art

Valentyn Krysachenko – The phenomenon of tolerance and consolidation of Ukrainian society

About the authors

Socio-cultural factors of spatial development of Ukraine: value-meaning aspects, 2020 No 19-20: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2020, 124 p.

A. M. Yermolenko (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Volodymyr Fadieiev – Man's development and social justice: politics of spatial development in Europe

Halyna Nosova – New regionalism and identification processes in Ukraine

Serhii Hrabovskyi – 3D philosophy: “Height”, “Width”, “Depth”. Outline of the problem field

Halyna Kovadlo – Space of culture and moral consciousness (some philosophico-methodological aspects)

CATEGORY: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSONALITIES...

Myroslav Popovych – Cognition and logic of action

To Be Human (in memoriam of Myroslav Popovych), 2018 No 15-16: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2018, 248 p.

A. M. Yermolenko (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Anatolii Yermolenko – Myroslav Popovych’s philosophy of discourse in the context of leading trends in modern philosophy

Serhii Hrabovskyi – Myroslav Popovych School

Volodymyr Kuznietsov – Myroslav Popovych as an extraordinary personality, organizer and inspirer of Ukrainian academic philosophy

Yurii Ishchenko – To the discourse of M. Popovych's philosophy of history

Valerii Zahorodniuk – Philosopher-encyclopedist of the postmodern age

Halyna Kovadlo – Personalism as modern individualism (to the question of identity and self-identification)

Andrii Vasylchenko – Analytical philosophy in the Ukrainian context

Olena Lazorenko – Myroslav Popovych's culturological narrative and contemporary interdisciplinary creative concepts

Maryna Stoliar – Laughing culture of «Aeneid» by I. Kotliarevsky in the reception of M. Popovych

Oleh Bylyi – The discourse of revolution and legitimacy. Cultural and historical background

Valentin Omelyantchik – A note on the nature of simple assertion in Abelard and his predecessors (Boethius, Ammonius, Apollonius, Priscian, Glosulae, P. Helias)

Tetiana Hardashuk – Innovative development in the face of modern challenges

Yevhenii Andros – M.V. Popovych as a model of creative self-realization of an individual

Serhii Proleiev – Philosophy of history inspired by the Red Age

Olha Homilko – The idea of freedom and progress in the philosophy of history of Mykhailo Drahomanov

Yurii Pysarenko – Archaic perception of power: visual semiotics

Category: Philosophical personalities...

Myroslav Popovych – The concept of the national idea and the mechanism of its implementation

History and Modernity in the Scientific Reflections of the Institute of Philosophy (on the occasion of its 70th anniversary), 2016 No 11-12: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2017, 232 p.

M. V. Popovych (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Myroslav Popovych – Pavel Kopnin and his "logic of scientific cognition"

Valentin Lukianets – Pavel Kopnin and the problem of "self-awareness of science"

Volodymyr Kuznetsov – From the study of theoretical physics to the philosophical modeling of scientific concepts and theories: under the influence of Pavlo Kopnin and his school

Valentin Omelyantchik – la notion de verificateur chez Alexandre D’aphrodise

Petro Yolon – Rational forms of reconstruction of social reality

Volodymyr Navrotskyi – Semantics of justification

Tetiana Hardashuk – Converging technologies and scientific art

Mykola Kyseliov – Study of the problems of the philosophy of biology and ecology at the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Yaroslava Stratii – P.V. Kopnin and his role in the study of Ukrainian philosophical thought of the XVII-XVIII centuries

Category: Philosophical personalities....

Volodymyr Shynkaruk – "Khrushchyevskaya Thaw". New trends in the studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the 60s

Serhii Krymskyi – The new rationality is an establishment of spirituality

Logico-methodological analysis of the language of science and the problem of knowledge presentation, 2014 No 8: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2014, 246 p.

M. V. Popovych, H. P. Kovadlo (eds.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Part I

Myroslav Popovych – Analytical philosophy as an empirical study

Vladimir Navrotskii – Formal argumentation theory and the problem of knowledge representation

Vladimir Kuznyetsov – Linguistic means of physical theory and the problem of representing reality

Andrei Vasilchenko – Analysis of psychoanalytic discourse using the logic of intentionality

Natalia Viatkina – Direct reference and methods of its presentation

Yaroslav Kokhan – Semiotic systems as carriers of languages

Part II

Myroslav Popovych – Analytical philosophy and humanities

Vladimir Navrotskii – The content of assertions and beliefs: an argumentative approach

Vladimir Kuznetsov – Naming in systems of scientific knowledge: from naming realities to the role in the representation and production of knowledge about realities

Andrei Vasilchenko – Logic of projections

Natalia Viatkina – Deferentiation and socio-semantic knowledge networks

Yaroslav Kokhan – The phenomenon of knowledge from the logic point of view

‘Russian World’ as a doctrine: origins, threats, methods, 2021 No 21-22: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2021, 156 p.

A. M. Yermolenko (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introductory speech of the organizing committee of the conference

Volodymyr Volkovskyi – «Russian world» as a doctrine: methodological philosophical problems and research dimensions

Anatolii Yermolenko – «Russian world» – the ideology of Russian imperialism

Ksenia Zborovska – Religious foundations of statehood in the context of the doctrine «russian world»

Serhii Yosypenko – «Russian world» as ideology and cultural space

Halyna Kovadlo – On the question of the peculiarities of the modern European world as an alternative to «russian world»

Anatolii Akhutin – Diavoletics of «Russian world»

Bogdan Bevza – «Ukrainian world» or «Russian world»: dimensions and the possibility of confrontation

Iryna Berland – «Russian world» is war

Yelizaveta Borysenko – Russian propaganda in Russian television mass culture 2000-2010: individual cases

Serhii Horbik – Promotion of the ideology of "Russian world" through... Ukrainian Orthodoxy

Oksana Horkusha – The post-colonial path from the «Russian world» to the Ukrainian world: a lace of identities on the map of worldview horizons

Tetiana Derkach – «Russian world»: the fate of the matryoshka doll

Pavlo Zhovnirenko – Phenomenon of the Horde

Maryana Levytska – Elements of the imperial concept «Holy Rus» in the religious art of the 19th century (on the example of the Pochaiv Lavra)

Maksym Neyman – Political foundations of the doctrine of «Russian world»: is «Russian world» an ideology?

Vitalii Nechyporenko – The ideology of the «Russian world» as a strategy for the authoritarian consolidation of society

Ihor Pylypiv – Antagonistic foundations as a means and method of integration of the «Russian world»

Anna Pshenychna – An analogue of the «Russian world» in Soviet humanities

Roman Samchuk – «Russian world»: between mythology and ideology

Dariia Syngaievska – The eternal present of «Russian world»: the political foundations of the doctrine

Volodymyr Sushchenko – «European world» as an alternative to «Russian world» in Ukraine

Rymma Tovkailo – The problem of returning lost spiritual foundations in the context of artistic reality of the «Shmatko and Sons» Gallery

Vitalii Shevchenko – «Russian world» in the visions of his supporters and opponents (a few comments on the topic)

About the authors

Philosophy in the Academy: achievements, problems, prospects (to the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), 2019 No 17-18: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2019, 280 p.

A. M. Yermolenko (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Anatolii Yermolenko – Academic philosophy in a paradigm shift

Anatolii Konverskyi – Cooperation of the H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine and the Faculty of Philosophy of Taras Shevchenko National University of Ukraine are the basis of the development of national philosophical education and science

Anatolii Lazarievich – Academic philosophy in the context of problems of social modernization

Mykhailo Boichenko – Philosophical position: academic neutrality due to engagement with academic truth

Olga Gomilko – The philosophy supremacy in the digital age

Oleg Bilyi – Legitimacy: communication and violence

Yevhen Andros - Department of Philosophical Anthropology: conceptual principles of work and departmental life

Valerii Zagorodniuk – The man: a source of theoretical perversions or the heart of modern philosophizing?

Halyna Kovadlo – Features of «internal sociality» and moral consciousness

Hennadii Shalashenko – Modern demand for humanity: burdensome pathos or urgent need for survival

Volodymyr Kuznetsov – Is the philosophy of science a science? From a view of the Ukrainian philosopher of science

Volodymyr Navrotskyi – Statements justification: the strength of arguments, the weight of foundations and schemes of conclusion

Iryna Kysliakovska – Discipline as a technique of socialization in an authoritarian society

Tetiana Hardashuk, Nelya Filianina – Educational functions of scientific art

Olena Lazorenko – Philosophy of education and adult learning in modern society

Yaroslav Liubyvyi – Formation of the idea of transcendental foundations of self-conscious self-reproducing identity in late antique philosophy

Fedir Medvid, Yaroslav Melnychenko, Anatolii Tverdokhlib – Historico-philosophical studies in the Shevchenko scientific society

Category: Philosophical personalities...

Vladimir Shinkaruk – Categorical structure of worldview. Worldview and culture

Traditions and novations in the scientific studies of the Institute of Philosophy (to the 70th anniversary), 2017 No 13-14: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2017, 272 p.

M. V. Popovych (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Foreword

Serhii Hrabovskyi – Revival of Ukrainian philosophy (60-80s)

Yevhen Andros – Concepts of «being», «existence», «world» in the legacy of V.I. Shynkaruk

Anatolii Yermolenko – Culture and civilization: the Ukrainian dimension of the modern identity

Volodymyr Ryzhko – History of philosophy as an educational discipline: from nomadology to conceptology

Victor Malakhov, Tetiana Chaika – Milestones of the scientific biography of Vitalii Tabachkovskyi

Halyna Kovadlo – Spirituality and morality in the context of the ethos of tolerance

Yevhen Bystrytskyi – The project of war: from identity to violence

Oleh Bilyi – Reason of State and Nation-State

Nazip Khamitov – Philosophy of civilizational project of Ukraine

Valerii Zagorodniuk – Anthropological and linguistic turns in the philosophy of the 20th century

Leonid Solonko – The role of the experience of «white light» in overcoming the existential crisis of the individual

Yurii Ishchenko – Sophia of science: knowledge as a transcendence of senses

Category: philosophical personalities…

Volodymyr Shynkaruk – «Reflecting on the situation…»

Vitalii Tabachkovskyi – «Anthropological turn» of philosophers of the 1960s in personalities: Vadym Ivanov

Philosophy. Culture. Society: on the 85th anniversary of Academician M. V. Popovych, 2015 No 9-10: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2015, 324 p.

M. V. Popovych (ed.) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Petro Yolon – Foreword

Yurii Ishchenko – I often come back to this question

Anatolii Yermolenko – Pragmatics of discourse from the perspective of communicative philosophy

Halyna Kovadlo – Subjective experience in phenomenological research and the search for identity

Hennadii Shalashenko – Phenomenon and discourse: the role of anthropological beliefs in the sciences of culture and society

Yevhenii Andros – Self-realization as the top of the value pyramid of human existence

Lyudmila Sitnichenko – The right to identity: justice instead of violence

Valerii Zagorodniuk – Modern and postmodern images of man

Vitalii Liakh – Humanism in the context of the «anthropological catastrophe» of the 20th century.

Oleksandr Grabovych, Volodymyr Kuznietsov – Problems as internal structures of scientific education systems

Volodymyr Navrotskii – From affirmation to acceptance

Valentin Omelyantchik – Does Plato argue with Socrates? (notes to the early medieval debate)

Valentin Omelyanchik – Constructive Belief vis-à-vis the Slingshot

Nina Polishchuk – Metamorphoses of modern ideas in Ukrainian philosophical thought of the 20th century (the Western intellectual context of the discussions of the 1920s)

Yaroslava Stratii – The doctrine of the soul in the philosophical courses of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the context of the scholastic tradition

Oleh Kyseliov – The relationship between religion and culture in the understanding of Ukrainian scholars of the Soviet era

Olena Lazorenko – Ukrainian Context of the Creative Social Actions

Oleh Bilyi – Ideology of Globalism and metamorphosis of globalization

Tetiana Hardashuk – Bioart: a challenge or a warning?

Olha Homilko – War as a phenomenon of life: an adventure of the spirit or the greatest sorrow?

Yurii Pysarenko – Sight as the basis of communion

Man. History. Reason: based on the materials of philosophical readings in memory of I. V. Boichenko, 2011 No 5: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2011, 494 p.

M. I. Boichenko, H. P. Kovadlo (eds.) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Serhii Proleiev – Actuality of the philosophy of history

Serhii Yosypenko – The problem of the identity of the history of philosophy and the evolution of historical knowledge

Vakhtang Kebuladze – Ahistorical reconstruction as a method of phenomenological research

Oleksandr Kikhno – Cultural and civilizational dualism in the concepts of European and domestic historiographers

Victor Zinchenko – Social philosophy of history and analysis of alternative prospects for the development of global society

Mykola Kyseliov – The current state of the methodology of socio-cultural study

Iryna Dobronravova – Types of rationality and practices of science

Taras Liutyi – An excursion into the history of "humanism" and "anti-humanism" concepts

Halyna Kovadlo – Existential dimensions of human life and freedom

Victoria Pitulei – Rethinking the problem of individual freedom in German classical philosophy

Vitalii Nechyporenko – Social transformations in a quasi-modern society

Mykhailo Boichenko – Systematic application of reason as a philosopher's vocation

Oleksandr Boichenko – "Axial" time: the ancient Chinese version of the Zhan Guo era

Hanna Nosova – Postmodernism, identity crisis and the need for metaphysics (recalling the legacy of I.V. Boichenko)

Oleksandr Okhrimovych – Retrospective application of I. V. Boichenko's monadic methodology (based on the philosophy of J.-J. Rousseau)

Oleksandr Polishchuk – Multicultural (polyethnic) society is the basis of a political nation

Roman Samchuk – Humanistic-value orientations in the context of civilizational-transformational processes

Andrii Matviichuk – Imperative thinking in the context of grounding environmental deontology

Oleksandr Shmorgun – Universal characteristics of neocorporatism in the civilization dimension and Ukraine

Eduard Yurchenko – The problem of the direction of the historical process in the context of the monadological understanding of history

Iryna Kolosiuk – Philosophical grounding of pedagogical anthropology (experience of applying I. V. Boichenko's methodological guidelines)

Yaroslava Nikolaienko – The role of the individual principle in the formation of citizenship

Svitlana Kutsepal – Communicative component of the modern society

Roman Bogachev – Materialistic dialectics as a means of unification and development of the essential forces of man-people-mankind

Oleksandr Volkov – Transformation of the subject and tone of discourse

Nikolai Popovych – Anthropology as a borderline science between natural science and social knowledge

Sergii Shevchenko – The specifics of understanding the phenomenon of "new being" in P. Tillich's philosophy

Nataliia Kyrpach – Psychological-pedagogical conditions for the development of the personal potential of a teenager

Volodymyr Spivak – Perspectives on the relationship between the master and the servant in the preaching legacy of Antonii Radyvylovskyi

Bohdan Tymchyshyn – The family aspect in the state-building process

Viacheslav Artiukh – The concept of "tradition" in Ukrainian conservative-nationalist historiosophy

Vitalii Bryzhnik – The historical process as mankind's search for knowledge

Aleksandr Voynov – The Logic of the Universe

Olha Volyk – Features of post-non-classicism and meaningful life strategies in psychological practices

Oleksandra Honcharova – Methodological principles of the theoretical generalization of the philosophy of history in the presentation of I. V. Boichenko

Oksana Kozhemiakina – The culture of trust and the principle of responsibility in the dynamics of modern social development

Mykola Kravchuk – Strategic action as the basis of fragmentation of the life-world

Ihor Liesiev – Ethnic movements and forms of their manifestation

Vyacheslav Makhankov – Conceptualization of visual perception as a problem of philosophical hermeneutics

Victoria Moskalyk – Language and action: the phenomenon of contextuality

Olha Romanenko – Openness of human existence in a globalized society

Tetiana Sobol – Social relations of man and society

Oleksandra Shmorgun – Ukrainian intelligentsia: existential-sociological dimension

Philosophico-anthropological readings: European values and Ukrainian realities (to the 80th anniversary of the birth of O. I. Yatsenko) 2012 No. 6: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2012, 340 p.

Y. I. Andros (ed.) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Yevhen Andros – The European choice of Ukraine as a decisive factor in the return of social optimism to the Ukrainian people

Ella Libanova – Value orientations and social realities of Ukrainian society

Anatolii Loy – Problems of values in the context of Ukrainian realities

Anatolii Yermolenko – Objective rationality and universalist values in the conditions of globalization

Vitalii Liakh – Transformation of identity in the age of globalization

Mykola Kyseliov – The problem of values in modern Ukrainian mentality

Liudmyla Cherenko – Main characteristics of the standard of living of the population of Ukraine at the current stage of development

Valerii Zagorodnyuk – European values: a givenness or a problem?

Nazip Khamitov – Ancient, Gothic and Slavic principles in the being of European man

Volodymyr Lychkovakh – Spiritual health of Slavs as an ethnic, pan-European and global value

Viсtor Malakhov – To the problem of intergenerational relations in modern Ukrainian philosophy

Halyna Kovadlo – Conflict, «reconciliation practices» and tolerance in social existence

Andrii Doniuk – Anthropological and transcendental dimensions of modern research in psychological knowledge: reduction and thing in phenomenological knowledge

Taras Liutyi – Passions in the desert of the boundless (about the biographical novel by Viсtor Petrov-Domontovych «The Lonely Traveler Walks the Lonely Road»)

Oleksii Moroz – Artificial intelligence as a cardinal means of strengthening the scientific creative potential of a person

Hennadii Shalashenko – Human dimension as a problem of optimal communication

Yurii Ishchenko – The danger of tolerance: the movement from human quality to public recognition

Liudmyla Sytnichenko – Justice as recognition, or what a philosopher should not be silent about

Anatolii Pypych – «Nomenclature elite» as a subject of social and political science research

Svitlana Sydorenko – Youth as a generation: the problem of value orientations

Victoria Pulina – The Legacy of Panteleimon Kulish: a dialogue of languages, cultures and civilizations

Serhii Grabovskyi – Dialectical humanism of Oleksandr Yatsenko

Polina Herchanivska – Ukrainian culture under the conditions of modern socio-cultural entropy

Serhii Shevchenko – The philosophy of Paul Tillich: reflections on the value foundations of human existence

Mykola Ponomarenko – Symbolic reflection of being

Iryna Hrabovska – Gender-balanced society as a manifestation of the European choice of Ukraine: philosophical-worldview problems

Yevhen Myroliubenko – Consensus as the goal of public discourse

Tetiana Hardashuk – Civil society in the face of modern environmental challenges

Serhii Taranov – Over the horizon. The idea of «transmarginal» anthropology

Victoriya Kozachynska – Hierarchy of values in the historiosophical concept of V. Lypynskyi

Dmytro Usov – The idea of social agreement as a pan-European value: to the origins of the problem

Svitlana Kiselytsia – Belief in spirituality as a measure of universal human values in the Ukrainian mentality

Volodymyr Sabadukha – The concept of four levels of development of essential human forces as a methodological basis for the analysis of Ukrainian realities in the context of European values

Natalia Margelis – Existential and anthropological nature of intonation as a human dimension

Olha Ruban – Realities and prospects of gender partnership in Ukraine at the beginning of the 21st century (worldview aspect)

Roman Samchuk – Philosophical dimensions of modern humanism

Vitalii Turenko – The idea of Christian love in the context of human existence in modern Ukraine

From the «family album» of the jubilee

Ethics and politics: national and world experience: based on the materials of the scientific conference, 2009 No 3: Kyiv: Philosophical dialogues, 2009, 272 p.

O. Kyseliova, V. Malakhov (eds.) — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Chapter I. Theoretical problems of the relation between ethics and politics

Usov D. – Ethics and politics: the historico-philosophical dimension of the problem

Homilko O. – Anthropological principles of political responsibility

Abolina T. – Humanistic ethos of moral culture

Shevchuk D. – The problem of the universality of the justice principles in the John Rawls` philosophy

Muliarchuk Ye. – The moral-ethical principles of individual participation in politics from the point of view of the Christian worldview

Chapter II. Contemporary experience of ethical comprehending of politics

Bilyi O., Vovk V. – Behind the scenes of the Basic Law (Identity and the constitutional process)

Kyslyi O. – Ethics and politics: foundations of national experience

Malakhov V. – Politics: the experience of dislike

Zhulai V. – Does every nation deserve its own government? (Problem statement essays)

Darenskyi V. – Political ethos in the contemporary Ukraine: origins and prospects of transformation

Kyseliova O. – Gender policy of Ukraine in the context of European integration

Pavlova O. – The interaction of politics and media practices in the conditions of opposition between ethical and aesthetical

Bosenko Ye. – Political anthropology of the modern times

Okhrimenko H. – Sources of ethical issues in Ukrainian polemical literature of the late 16th and early 17th centuries

Yashchuk T. – Transformation of historical consciousness in post-Soviet Ukraine

Aliayev H. – Methodological aspects of the study of the Russian school of moral-political-religious philosophy

Loznytsia S. – Ethical foundations of religious beliefs and their impact on socio-economic processes in society

Philosophical and anthropological readings: the creative legacy of V.I. Shynkaruk and the present (to the 80th anniversary of his birth) in 2 parts. Part 1, 2010 No. 4: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2010, 316 p.

Ye. Andros (ed.) — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Yevhen Andros – V.I. Shynkaruk as the initiator of the anthropological turn in Ukrainian philosophy of the 20th century

Vasyl Kremen – The human-dimensional meaning of V.I. Shynkaruk's philosophical views

Viktor Pazenok – Dominants of the spiritual and practical world of the thinker

Anatolii Loy – Philosophical anthropology and practical philosophy

Anatolii Yermolenko – The unity of knowledge in the light of discursive critique of the worldview approach

Vitalii Liakh – Intentionality of manifestations of human existence: existentialist-psychoanalytical approach

Volodymyr Ryzhko – Volya (freedom) as a phenomenon of man: about the concept of V.I. Shynkaruk

Volodymyr Yaroshovets – Philosophy of V.I. Shynkaruk: existential and anthropological dimension

Volodymyr Lobas – Integrity of Ukrainian culture under the conditions of globalization

Valerii Zagorodniuk – Anthropological turn and anti-personalist tendencies in modern philosophy

Mykola Kyseliov – Concept of "unified science": philosophical and methodological aspect

Hanna Horak – The individual beginning in the social system

Volodymyr Lychkovakh - Ukrainian sacraments. Sacred signatures of art

Victor Malakhov – Aesthetic categorization of philosophical experience: possibility and sense

Halyna Kovadlo – Tolerance as a requirement of reason and mutual self-restraint

Petro Yolon – The origins of the phenomenological interpretation of the objects of science in Hegel's philosophy

Serhii Proleiev – Premodern universalisms: to the genealogy of the world history

Hennadii Shalashenko – Anthropological idea of the world and dimensions of human existence

Mykhailo Skrynnyk – Deformation of the Ukrainian life-world as a problem of national rootlessness: romanticism and modernity

Mykola Nadolnyi – Typological modeling in social cognition

Vasyl Kusherets – Scientific and spiritual enlightenment in the work and actions of academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine V.I. Shynkaruk

Volodymyr Yatchenko – Shamanism as a historical form of objectification of social self-awareness

Mykola Zaitsev – Human individuality in the semantic field of Christianity and Islam

Yurii Ishchenko – Cognitive-normative components of expert knowledge

Lidiya Hazniuk – Shame as a vital-somatic frustration in the human being

Anatolii Pypych – Social philosophy and science in the vortex of social transformations

Oksana Kozhemiakina – Trust as an image of faith in the philosophical anthropology of Martin Buber

Valentyna Voronkova – Man is not only the measure of all things, but also its creator

Iryna Stepanenko – Anthropological limits of tolerance in the context of pedagogical practice

Oleksandr Chronii – Ontological ideas of V.I. Shynkaruk as the foundation of the history of Ukrainian philosophy of the 21st century

Victoria Shamrai – The social project of modernity: principles of research

Oleksandr Kyryliuk – The «man-world» relationship and worldview categories of ultimate bases

Dimensions of human existence: logic, methodology, semiotics of culture: based on the materials of the conference for the 75th anniversary of Academician M. V. Popovich, 2009 No 1: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2009, 440 p.

M. V. Popovych, H. P. Kovadlo, N. B. Viatkina (eds.) — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

To the portrait of the philosopher against the background of time

Anatolii Yermolenko – Ethical rationality in the context of transcendental pragmatics

Anatolii Konverskyi – Development by M.V. Popovych of the logic of science in the context of traditional philosophical problems

Serhii Yosypenko – The problem of man as a philosophical topic: eternity and historicity

Viktor Malakhov – Freedom as ease

Viktor Pazenok – Sophia world of philosophy

Vitalii Lyakh – Philosophy as «self-care» as «the art of being»

Petro Yolon – Phenomenological understanding of the ontology of science and Immanuel Kant

Halyna Kovadlo – Tolerance in the modern world of dissensus

Serhii Proleiev – News consciousness: cultural origins and modern collisions

Hryhorii Tulchynskyi – Logical culture and freedom: logic in Soviet and post-Soviet society

Stanislav Husiev – Peculiarities of syntactic organization of communicative actions

Murad Akhundov – Science: objective knowledge or social constructivism

Iryna Dobronravova – Methodological bases of actions in conditions of non-linearity

Olga Homilko – The concept of corporeality: "reconciliation" of anthropology and ontology

Valentin Omelianchik – Existential consciousness and the problem of true belief

Nina Polishchuk – Pluralistic methodology of B. Kistiakivskyi in the context of Western European intellectual culture of the beginning of the 20th century.

Iryna Kisliakovska – Spontaneous and rational use of the reason

Hennadii Shalashenko – Dimensions of human existence and their transcendental perspective in the philosophical anthropology of G. Haeffner

Yaroslav Kokhan – Unnoticed Metalogical Discipline

Olena Kodiieva – The source of being: the immortal traditions of aesthetics of H. Skovoroda

Yevhen Andros – Rationality as a need of today

Kostiantyn Zarubytskyi - Man and nature in the light of deontology

Nataliia Kyrpach – Peculiarities of maieutic dialogue and the formation of the inner world of a person

Victoria Shamrai – Social heritage of the "red century" and today's society

Natalia Viatkina – Myroslav Popovych: structure effect. (Experience of the afterword)

Reflections on the works of the jubilee

Volodymyr Fadieyev – About meaning in history. (Reflections on Myroslav Popovych's book «The Red Century»)

Serhii Proleiev – The last century: the time color is red

Serhii Yosypenko – Myroslav Popovych – a scholar of Hryhorii Skovoroda

From the "family album" of the jubilee

Paths and crossroads of modern civilization (Man – Culture – Posthistory): according to the materials of the conference for the 75th anniversary of S.B. Krymskyi, 2009 No 2: Kyiv: Philosophical Dialogues, 2009, 236 p.

S.B. Krymskyi, H.P. Kovadlo (eds.) — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

CONTENTS

Krymskyi S. – Calls for spirituality of the 21st century

Kyseliov M. – Sophia and rationality in modern scientific knowledge: peculiarities of interaction

Popov M. – S.B. Krymskyi and the problem of the modern status of philosophy

Kovalchuk N. – Wisdom as an existential phenomenon

Kurbatov S. – Language: the way to the house of being

Ishchenko Yu. – Serhii Krymskyi's concept of "metahistory" and the discourse of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of history

Omelianchik V. – The logic of classical mechanics and the quasi-classical world

Drotianko L. – Correlation of scientific and non-scientific knowledge in the concept of S.B. Krymskyi

Proleiev S. – The potential of universalist discourses

Pazenok V. – Problems of philosophical relativism: modern scientific context

Yermolenko A. – Value-semantic universe and universality of discourse in the era of globalization

Kovadlo H. – Freedom of choice and human existence

Shalashenko H. – Regarding the question of why we dislike freedom so much

Liakh V. – Interpretation of the authenticity of human existence in the "philosophy of life" and existentialism

Malakhov V. – The measure of the human as a regulatory idea of culture and actual alternatives of modern civilizational development

Liubyvyi Ya. – Synergetics of the virtual and virtual dimensions of self-organization

Shamrai V. – Clan-corporate system and civil society

Sytnichenko L. – Searching for fair social strategies: individual and universal dimensions

Ryzhko V. – The "Third truth" of being... "Clears up"...

Sukhodub T. – To live a philosopher

Pysarenko Yu. – Pyrohoshcha – Dormition – Bratchyna (Looking for keys to the "The Tale")

The path of philosophy of the XIX-XX centuries (Trans. From German by M. D. Kultaeva, V. I. Kebuladze, V. M. Terletskyi): Kyiv, Duh i Litera, 2010, 368 p.

Wolfgang Röd; Mariia Kultaieva, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Vitalii Terletskyi — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The book by the well-known historian of philosophy Wolfgang Röd presents a broad panorama of the historical development of world philosophy during the 19th – 20th centuries (from the end of classical German philosophy to the present day). This volume, like the one before it, The Path of Philosophy: From the 17th to the 19th century (K., 2009), is the author's summary of the fundamental 14-volume history of philosophical thought prepared by Professor Röd. The text successfully combines conceptuality and depth with clarity, conciseness and stylistic skill of presentation. In addition to a thorough coverage of all significant philosophical phenomena and events since the mid-nineteenth century, this edition contains a separate essay on the development of philosophy in recent decades, written by W. Röd specifically for the Ukrainian publication and absent even in the last German reprint in 2009. Due to the range of its topics, the book is of interest not only to philosophers, political scientists, historians, and lawyers, but will also be useful to anyone who is not indifferent to the twists and turns of science, society, and culture of the 19th – 20th centuries.

CONTENTS

Wolfgang Röd : the path of a philosopher

Part three: Philosophy of the 19th century after the crisis of idealism

I. Materialistic reinterpretation of Hegelianism

1. Hegelian school
a) Right- and left-wing Hegelians
b) Ludwig Feuerbach

2. Karl Marx
a) Life and works
b) The ideal of a communist society
c) Basic ideas of economic theory

3. Friedrich Engels
a) Establishment of dialectical materialism
b) Theory of knowledge and ontology
c) Dialectics in history

II. Naturalistic and anti-naturalistic trends of the 19th century

1. Old positivism
a) Auguste Comte
(1) Comte and the emergence of positivism
(2) Stages of human development and the hierarchy of sciences
(3) "Positive" religion
b) John Stuart Mill
(1) Formation of English positivism
(2) The logic of induction
(3) Utilitarian morality
(4) Liberal concept of the state

2. Naturalistic trends
a) Materialism under the influence of natural science
b) Spencer's synthetic philosophy

3. Spiritualist counter-movement

4. Spiritualist criticism of idealism
a) Bernard Bolzano
b) Trendelenburg
c) Franz Brentano
d) Wilhelm Wundt

5. Positivism at the turn of the century

III. Neo-Kantianism
1. Return to Kant

2. Marburg neo-Kantianism
a) Hermann Cohen
(1) Theory of knowledge
(2) Ethics and philosophy of religion
b) Paul Natorp
c) Ernst Cassirer

3. North-western trend of German neo-Kantianism
a) Wilhelm Windelband
b) Heinrich Rickert

4. The realistic direction of criticism

IV. Philosophy of life
1. Nietzsche
a) Philosophy of art and history
b) Nietzsche and metaphysics
c) Nihilism and its overcoming

2. Dilthey's hermeneutic philosophy
a) Dilthey and the tradition of hermeneutics
b) Doctrine of understanding

3. Bergson's philosophy of life
a) Spatio-temporal processes and duration
b) Thinking in images and non-image thinking
c) Intuition as knowledge of essence
d) Metaphysical doctrine of development

Part four: Philosophy in the first half of the 20th century

I. Further influence of old trends

1. Neo-Hegelianism
a) Hegelianism in England
b) Hegelianism in Italy
(1) Croce
(2) Giovanni Gentile

2. Marxism in the 20th century
a) Marxism-Leninism
(1) Lenin
(2) Lukács
b) Neo-Marxism

3. Neoscholasticism

II. Phenomenology

1. Husserl
a) Critique of psychologism
b) The ideal of strictly scientific philosophy
c) Turn to transcendental philosophy
d) Philosophy of the life-world

2. Phenomenology after Husserl
a) Scheler's phenomenological philosophy
b) N. Hartmann
(1) Metaphysics of knowledge
(2) The doctrine of categories
(3) Ethics

III. Existential philosophy

1. Kierkegaard as a predecessor of existential philosophy

2. Martin Heidegger
a) Phenomenology of Dasein
b) Reinterpretation of Kant's philosophy
c) Political engagement
d) Direction of "turn"

3. Karl Jaspers
a) The world, existence and transcendence
b) Philosophical faith

4. Jean-Paul Sartre

IV. Origins of analytical philosophy

1. G. Frege

2. B. Russell
a) Empiricism and platonism
b) Logical atomism
c) Russell's late philosophy

3. L. Wittgenstein`s philosophy in the "Treatise"
a) Understanding of philosophy
b) Main ideas of the "Treatise"
(1) Facts, states of affairs and objects
(2) Figurative theory of the sentence
(3) Self , language and the world

4. Philosophical analysis within the framework of ordinary language
a) J. E. Moore
b) "Philosophical Investigations " of Wittgenstein
(1) A new theory of meaning
(2) Criticism of mentalism and essentialism
(3) Criticism of the probability postulate

V. Pragmatism, neopositivism and critical rationalism
1. American pragmatism
a) Peirce as the founder of pragmatism
(1) Clarification of our ideas
(2) The doctrine of signs and categories
(3) Pragmatism and metaphysics
b) William James
(1) Views of the truth
(2) Pragmatism as a worldview
c) John Dewey

2. M. Schlick as a pioneer of neopositivism
a) Doctrine of knowledge
b) Ethics

3. Vienna Circle and directions close to it
a) The emergence of the Vienna Circle
b) Searches for the criterion of meaning
c) Reductionist programme
d) From ethics to metaethics

4. Popper's critical rationalism
a) Life and works
b) Popper and the tradition of criticism
c) Basics of knowledge
d) Knowledge and evolution
e) History of philosophy and history of science
(1) Thinking in an open and closed society
(2) Critique of the dialectical understanding of history

Afterword

APPENDIX: Philosophical trends in the second half of the 20th century

NOTES
LITERATURE
CHRONOLOGY
NAME INDEX

Imagined Communities. Reflections on The Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Trans. from English by V. Morozov): Kyiv, Krytyka, 2001, 271 p.

Benedict Anderson; Victor Morozov — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The classic work of the American scholar, translated into many languages, provides an original and convincing interpretation of the complex processes of the emergence and formation of the beliefs about national consciousnesses and identities in early modern societies.

Contents

Preface to the second edition
1 Introduction
2 Cultural roots
3 The origins of national consciousness
4 Creole pioneers
5 Old languages, new models
6 Official nationalism and imperialism
7 The last wave
8 Patriotism and racism
9 The Angel of History
10 Census, map, museum
11 Memory and oblivion
Bibliography
Index

The path of philosophy: from the 17th to the 19th century (Trans. From German V. Terletskyi, O. Vedrov): Kyiv, Duh i Litera, 2009, 386 p.

Wolfgang Röd; Vitalii Terletskyi, Oleksii Viedrov — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The work of Prof. Wolfgang Röd, one of the leading contemporary historians of philosophy, depicts the manifold development of Modern philosophy. Beginning with the work of R. Descartes, who is justly considered the pioneer of modern philosophy, he examines the richness of ideas of this era and their modifications in the further development of philosophical thought in the Enlightenment, in the work of I. Kant and his first interpreters, as well as in German idealism. The originality of the author's approach is clearly manifested in the author's historico-philosophical framework, which, following the Kantian understanding of philosophy as a “theory of experience,” presents a modern reading of the history of philosophy through the prism of “critical philosophy.”

Due to the range of its topics, the book is of interest not only to philosophers, political scientists, historians, and lawyers, but will also be useful to all those who are not indifferent to the twists and turns of science, society, and culture in the 17th and 19th centuries.

CONTENTS

Preface
Preface to the Ukrainian edition

Part one: Modern philosophy before Kant
I. Philosophy of the 17th century
1. Descartes
а) Biography
b) The starting point of Cartesian philosophy
с) The ideal of knowledge and science
d) The main ideas of metaphysics
e) The principle of natural philosophy
f) Body and soul
g) Theory and practice
2. Anti-rationalist tendencies in the 17th century
a) Hobbes and Gassendi as critics of the “Meditations”
b) The foundations of Hobbes' philosophy
c) Hobbes' philosophy of the state
d) Pascal
3. Further development of Cartesianism
а) The impetus for the emergence of occasionalism
b) Arnold Geulincx
с) Nicolas Malebranche
4. Benedict de Spinoza
а) The life of Spinoza
b) Geometric order
с) Overcoming dualism
d) Justification of determinism
e) Degrees of cognition
f) Moral philosophy
g) The doctrine of the state
5. John Locke
а) Biographical information
b) Critique of rationalism
с) Foundations of the empirical theory of knowledge
d) Philosophy of the state and the program of liberal politics
e) The main provisions of the philosophy of religion
6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
а) Life and work
b) The doctrine of monads
с) The principle of logic
d) Philosophy and religion

II. The Age of Enlightenment
1. The nature of the Enlightenment thought
а) On the concept of the Enlightenment
b) Shaftesbury as a forerunner of the Enlightenment
с) The Deists
2. Radicalization of empiricism
а) The combination of empiricism and religious speculation in Berkeley
b) Radicalization of empiricism in Hume
(1) Break with the theory of knowledge
(2) Hume's understanding of ethics
(3) The doctrine of law and state
(4) Critique of religion
с) Philosophy of “common sense” [common sense] 3.
3. The Enlightenment in France
а) Montesquieu
b) Voltaire
с) Diderot
d) Jean le Rond d'Alembert
e) Condillac and the school of Idéologues
f) Materialists
g) The beginnings of political economy
4. Enlightenment in Germany
a) Wolff and his supporters
b) Philosophy under the influence of Pietism
c) Lessing
5. Opponents of the Enlightenment
а) Giambattista Vico
b) Rousseau as a critic of intellectualism
(1) The life of the unadapted
(2) Understanding of nature
(3) Freedom and legal order
(4) Labor and property
6. Philosophy and social and political transformations at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
a) Enlightenment ideology of progress
b) The ideal of a new society based on the Enlightenment program
c) Reaction to the French Revolution: traditionalists, de Saint-Simon
d) The development of socialism from Fourier to Proudhon

Part Two: Kant and German Idealism
I. Kant's philosophy
1. Kant, Königsberg and the citizens of the world
2. The so-called pre-critical philosophy of Kant
3. The main ideas of the theory of reference
a) The question of the possibility of knowledge
b) Synthetic judgments a priori
c) Contemplation and concepts
d) Phenomena and things in themselves
4. The failure of traditional metaphysics: antinomies and paralogisms
5. Transcendental philosophy instead of transcendental metaphysics
6. The ethics of duty
a) Kantian ethics in the 1760s
b) Ethical formalism
c) Ethics and metaphysics
7. Law and state, history and politics
a) The main ideas of the doctrine of law and state
b) Philosophy of history
8. Doctrine of the beautiful and expedient
a) Expediency of nature
b) The beautiful and sublime
9. Philosophy of religion

III. Metaphysical and psychological interpretations of critical philosophy
1. Approach of critical philosophy to traditional metaphysics
a) Herbart's metaphysics of experience
b) The main ideas of Herbart's psychology
2. Psychological and anthropological interpretation of critical philosophy
a) Fries's psychological understanding of critique
b) Fries's school in the XIX and XX centuries
c) Beneke as a representative of psychologism
3. Linguistic and philosophical metacritique

III. From critical philosophy to idealism
1. Jacobi and the debate about spinozism
2. Jacobi's philosophy of faith
3. Maimon's understanding of transcendental philosophy
4. Reinhold's systematization of transcendental philosophy
5. The skeptical opposition

IV. Fichte
1. Life and works
2. Idealism and dogmatism
3. Idealism of the doctrine of science
a) The main provisions of the first form of the doctrine of science
b) The tendency of the later doctrine of science
4. Ethical life [Sittlichkeit] and law
a) The main provisions of moral philosophy
b) Philosophy of right and philosophy of state

V. Schelling
1. Life and evolution of thought
2. From the doctrine of science to natural philosophy
a) Self-philosophy
b) The experience of organic life
c) Intellectual contemplation
3. Speculative doctrine of nature
4. Philosophy of identity
5. Theosophy and “positive philosophy”
a) The formation of the world as the formation of God
b) Philosophy of revelation

VI. Hegel
1. Life and works of Hegel
2. Hegel's theological starting point
3. Phenomenology of spirit
a) The problem of cognition
b) Forms of consciousness
(1) Object consciousness
(2) Self-consciousness
(3) Dialectics as the dynamics of theories
4.System: logic, natural philosophy, philosophy of spirit
a) The science of logic
b) Nature and the spiritual world
5. Philosophy of right and philosophy of state
a) Reality and reason
b) Family, civil society, state
6. Art, religion and history
a) Art
b) Religion
c) World history
7. The historical significance of Hegelianism

VII. Schopenhauer
1. The life of an outsider
2. Endeavors in critical philosophy
3. Will as a thing in itself
4. The good, the beautiful, and liberation
a) The ethics of compassion
b) Basic ideas of aesthetics
c) The doctrine of liberation
5. Schopenhauer's place in the history of philosophy

NOTES
LITERATURE
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
NAME INDEX

Philosophy in Ukraine (an attempt at historiography). Second edition, corrected and supplemented. Part I: Prague, Siyach, 1928, 142p.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The second edition of Chyzhevskyi's work “Philosophy in Ukraine” is based on somewhat expanded material that was found by Chyzhevskyi after the publication of the first edition (1926) and supplemented by several members of the Ukrainian historico-philological society in Prague. The volume contains only the first part of the intended revised work, which ends with a section on the philosophy of Hryhoriy Skovoroda.

An important supplement to the second edition is Chyzhevskyi's brief responses to some of the reviews of the first edition of “Philosophy in Ukraine” that were published in both emigrant journals and collections and in academic periodicals of the Ukrainian SSR. In particular, they contain Chyzhevskyi's arguments regarding certain methodological approaches he took in preparing the first edition (e.g., the criteria for selecting the figures discussed in the work), as well as responses to a number of critical points made by reviewers regarding the interpretation of certain subjects in his history of Ukrainian philosophy.

The cover of the book, which is not presented in the scan, indicates a different year of publication: 1929. The fact that the materials of the publication were finally organized in 1929 is also indicated by the fact that the aforementioned appendices to the book contain Chyzhevsky's responses to reviews published in 1929.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

CONTENTS

Preface to the second edition

From the preface to the first edition

Introduction

The problem of national philosophy
The problem of the history of Ukrainian philosophy

General overview of history

Philosophy in Ukraine

Folk worldview

The Middle Ages

XVII-XVIII centuries

Skovoroda

Appendices

I. My reviewers

II. Additions and corrections

III. One more ‘reviewer’

Index

Philosophy in Ukrainian culture: (methodology and history): Kyiv, Center of practical philosophy, 2001, 236 p.

Vilen Horskyi — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The essays included in this book are addres the problems of the history of philosophical culture. The methodological principles of the study of the development of philosophy in the context of national culture are grounded. Specific phenomena of Ukrainian philosophical thought and the peculiarities of their interaction with the achievements of the philosophy of other European nations are analysed.

The book is intended for scholars, lecturers and students of higher education, and anyone interested in the history of Ukrainian philosophical thought.

History of Greek literature in II vol. Vol. I. The Early Age: Rome, Editiones Universitatis Catholicae Ucrainorum S. Clementis Papae, 1970, 725 p.

Mykhailo Sonevytskyi — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The book presented is the first volume of Mykhailo Sonevytskyi's study on the history of ancient Greek literature. The volume also provides a detailed account of the history of pre-Socratic philosophy.

Describing the work, the author notes that he wanted to avoid the Scylla of overly academic writing, overloaded with bibliography and scientific apparatus, and the Charybdis of groundlessness. As a result, specialists will have the benefit of detailed references and bibliographies, while a wider range of readers will retain interest in the book as a handbook.

The historical significance of the work lies, in particular, in the fact that for a long time (until 1995, when Anatolii Tykholaz's translation of Heraclitus' fragments was published) this book was nearly the only published source of translations of pre-Socratic texts into Ukrainian.

The first volume got favorable reviews from critics and readers. The second volume, unfinished due to Sonevytsky's death, was published by UCU in 1977 and is now also available on the ArS website: https://ars.vntu.edu.ua/index.php/ars/catalog/book/201

Oleksandr Lukovyna

CONTENTS

Introduction

Introductory remarks

In memory of my teachers

Frequent abbreviations

Introduction

The meaning of Greek language
Chronological and genre division of the history of Greek literature
The destiny of the Greek literary heritage
Philological research on Greek literature
Books on the history of Greek literature
Ukrainian translations of Greek literature

Epic period

At the beginning of Greek history
Traces of ancient oral language. The emergence of sound writing
The plot and structure of the Iliad
The plot and structure of the Odyssey
Homer in the course of the ages
The Homeric question
Language, verse and style of the epics
Cultural, historical and social aspect of the epics
Religious outlook of epics
Homer's people
Characterization of the characters of Iliad
Characterization of the characters of the Odyssey
Cyclic epic
Homeric hymns and other pseudo-Homeric works
Hesiod

The rise of lyrics

The influence of socio-political changes on the rise of lyrics in literature
Elegy and iambic poetry (Callinus, Tirtheus, Archilochus, Simonides, Mimnermus, Solon, Hipponax, Theognis)
Melic monodic poetry (Alcai, Sappho, Anacreon)
Choral lyrics (Alcman, Stesichor, Ibic, Simonides, Bacchylides)
Pindar, the coryphaeus of choral lyrics

Origins of philosophy and prose literature

The origins of prose. Fable (Aesop). Religious literature
The origins of philosophy (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles)
The beginnings of scientific literature. The first attempts to write history

Origins of dramatic poetry

The rise of tragedy
The emergence of comedy. Epicharmus

List of illustrations

Index of names

Greek philosophy before Plato. Chrestomathy: Munich, Ukrayinskyi vilnyi universytet, 2015, 383 p.

Dmytro Chyzhevskyi (ed.) — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Publication of the first book edition of the chrestomathy “Greek Philosophy to Plato”, edited by the Ukrainian philosopher Dmytro Chyzhevsky (1926) and published in 2015 by Ukrainian Free University (Munich). It contains Ukrainian translations of excerpts from the original works, quotes or close to the original text of the paraphrases and testimonies of Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius and Xenophon about the lives and theories of the philosophers.

The chrestomathy was compiled in 1926 as a typescripted collection of texts for students of the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute. According to the editor of the chrestomathy, the book was intended to be used in the study of the philosophical ideas of ancient Greek philosophers.

The book also contains a preface by the contemporary German philosopher and orientalist Roland Pietsch, which briefly describes Chyzhevskyi's biography and the purpose of the chrestomathy.

Archivum Sententiarum expresses its sincere gratitude to the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), the Chancellor of the Ukrainian Free University Dmytro Shevchenko, and the head of the Ukrainian Free University Library Ivan Zaritsky for the donation of the copy and permission to scan and publish it.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

CONTENTS

Roland Pietsch. Dmytro Chyzhevskyi and his chrestomathy ‘Greek Philosophy before Plato’

I. Introduction
1. Sources for the history of ancient philosophy
2. Excerpts of original works
3. Quotes and paraphrases of the content
4. Testimonies. Plato as a historical witness
5. Aristotle as a witness about philosophers
6. Diogenes Laertius: his sources and biography, Αιαδοχαι, doxographical works
7. Xenophon's testimonies about Socrates
8. Tasks of the chrestomathy

II. THE CHRESTOMATHY
А. THE PRESOCRATICS
I. Thales
2. Testimonies of ancient writers about Thales
II. Anaximander
1. Fragments
2. Records of Anaximander
III. Anaximenes
1. Fragments
2. Records of Anaximenes
IV. Heraclitus
1. Fragments
2. Records of Heraclitus
V. Followers of Heraclitus
1. Fragments from the supporters of Heraclitus' theories have not reached us
2. Records
VI. The Pythagorean school
1. Records and legends about Pythagoras
2. Records of the followers of Pythagoras
3. The most prominent Pythagoreans
A. Alcmaeon of Croton
B. Philolaus of Tarentum
D. Archytas of Tarentum
4. General Records of the Pythagorean teaching
VII. Xenophanes
1. Fragments
2. Records of Xenophanes
VIII. Parmenides
1. Fragment (from the poem ‘On Nature’)
2. Records of Parmenides
IX. Zeno
1. Fragments
2. Records of Zeno
X. Melissus
1. Fragments (from the work ‘On Nature’)
2. Records of Melissus
XI. Empedocles
1. Fragments
2. Records of Empedocles
XII. Anaxagoras
1. Fragments from the work ‘On Nature’ (Peri φυσεως)
2. Records of about Anaxagoras
3. Records of Anaxagoras' disciples
XIII. Atomists
A. Leucippus
1. Fragments
2. Records of Leucippus
B. Democritus
1. Fragments
2. Records of Democritus
3. Fragments of followers of Democritus and the records of them
XIV. The Sophists
1. Fragments
A. Protagoras of Abdera
B. Gorgias of Leontini
C. Prodicus of Ceos
D. Hippias of Elis
E. Antiphon the sophist
F. Critias
G. Anonymous excerpts
2. Records
A. Protagoras
B. Gorgias of Leontini
C. Prodicus of Ceos
D. Hippias of Elis
E. Antiphon the sophist
F. Critias
G. Records of sophists in general

B. SOCRATES AND THE SOCRATICS
XV. Socrates
2. Records of Socrates
а. Life
ß. Characteristics of Socrates
y – the Socratic method
δ. Examples of the Socratic method
є. Socratic ethics
ζ. Political views of Socrates
η. Aesthetics of Socrates
Θ. Religious views of Socrates
XVI. Megarian school
1. Fragments
A. Euclid of Megara
B. Eubulides
C. Diodorus Cronus
D. Stilpo
2. Records of the Megarian school
A. Euclid
B. Eubulides
С. Diodorus Cronus
D. Stilpo
E. Other representatives of the school
а. School representatives
ß. Theories
XVII. Eretrian school
1. Fragments
A. Phaedo
B. Menedemus
2. Records of the Elido-Eretrian school
A. Phaedo
B. Menedemus
C. The school in general
XVIII. Cynicism
1. Fragments
A. Antisthenes
B. Diogenes of Sinope
C. Crates
D. Metrocles
E. Monimus
2. Records
A. Antisthenes
B. Diogenes of Sinope
C. Crates
D. Metrocles
E. Monimus
F. Onesicritus
G. Hipparchia
H. The school of Cynics in general
XIX. The Cyreniacs school
1. Fragments
А. Aristippus
B. Aristippus the Younger
С. Theodorus
D. Anniceris
E. Hegesias
2. Records
A. Aristippus
B. Aristippus the Younger
C. Theodorus
D. Anniceris
E. Hegesias

NOTES
INDEX OF NAMES

H. Skovoroda's theory of ‘neroblennia’. In Life and Revolution, No 4, 1926, pp. 49-55.

Viktor Petrov — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article is a review by Viktor Petrov of Dmytro Bahalii's book ‘H. S. Skovoroda. Ukrainian Travelling Philosopher’ (1926), a thorough study that is the result of 30 years of Bahalii's research on Skovoroda. The subject of Petrov's analysis and polemical remarks is Skovoroda's theory of "neroblennia" [not doing] described in detail by Bahalii, which the researcher attributes to Skovoroda's folklorist worldview. Petrov, although he shares the thesis of Skovoroda's anti-utilitarian worldview, advocated by Bahalii and some other Skovoroda scholars (in particular, Pavlo Zhytetskyi), does not share Bahalii's view of Skovoroda as a narodnyk and ‘the predecessor of future khlopomans, because, according to Petrov, ‘the sources and ideological and social “ simplifications” of Skovoroda and the narodnyks were too different’ (p. 55). According to Petrov, the pessimism and tragedy of Skovoroda's consciousness and work is due to the discrepancy between the oppressive life context of Catherine's Russia (p. 51), in which Skovoroda was forced to live, and his personal worldview. Ultimately, according to Petrov, behind the humiliating role of a ‘simple and lowly person’ at the time, he ‘hid the consciousness of his superhumanity’ (p. 52), and the idea of ‘neroblennia’ and the highly abstract concept of ‘ideal life’ became the only possible form of Skovoroda's existence in the socio-political context of the time.

Vlada Davidenko

Ukrainian Cultural Figures of the Ukrainian SSR 1920-1940. Victims of Bolshevik Terror: New York, Prolog, 1959. 80 p.

Viktor Petrov — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The work of Viktor Petrov, written in the early 1940s, is intended to shed light on the course of repressive measures taken by the Soviet authorities against representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia (writers, cultural figures, etc.) in the period before the outbreak of World War II, which culminated in its annihilation during the so-called ‘Yezhovshchyna’ (Great Terror). The author pays special attention to the role of the national factor in the brutality of the Soviet government's oppression of the Ukrainian intelligentsia. He examines in detail the fates of Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Dmytro Falkivskyi, Hryhorii Kosynka, Mykola Khvylovyi, Mykola Zerov, and Mykhailo Drai-Khmara as examples of those lost to repression; examples of destroyed associations and organizations include VAPLYTE, Lanka – Mars, the New Generation, the Neoclassicists' circle, and writers of the “old generation” (up to the 70s of the 19th century), whom the author considers to be the “old generation”. The author conditionally unites them into a pleiad of ‘seventiers’.

Vlada Davidenko

Contents

Preface

Bolshevism and the intelligentsia

The proletariat is called upon to replace the intelligentsia

The scheme to destroy the Ukrainian intelligentsia

On the trials

Yevhen Pluzhnyk

Dmytro Falkivskyi

Hryhorii Kosynka

Mykola Khvylovyi

Liquidation of literary organizations

Vaplite

Lanka – Mars

The ‘New Generation’

Neo-classics

Mykola Zerov

Mykhailo Drai-Khmara

‘Western Ukraine’

Party members

‘Seventies’

Unified

Additions

The contemporary image of the world. The crisis of classical physics. In Arka, No 1, 1947, pp. 2-7.

Viktor Ber — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article by Viktor Ber (one of the pseudonyms of Viktor Petrov) consists of three parts: 1) Classical physics and its foundations; 2) What can contemporary physics contribute to our knowledge of the world? 3) The problem of space. The material presents the author's reflections on his contemporary physics (which he calls ‘modern’) as a phenomenon that is quite symptomatic of the first half of the twentieth century - the same product of anti-naturalistic and anti-rationalistic trends of the time as art, political and social movements, etc. The author underlines his comparison of these different spheres with the following thesis: ‘Modern physics is not the physics of the objectively given natural world: it is the physics of technically altered processes, just as Picasso's portraits are not nature perceived in its direct, immediate objective givenness’ (p. 7). According to the author, the desire for decomposition, whether of the atom in physics or of real things in Picasso's paintings, is a manifestation of the ‘explosive forces of the revolutionary era’, and the crisis of classical physics is a manifestation of the general crisis experienced by the time that the author witnessed.

Vlada Davidenko

The problem of the epoch. In Orlyk, No. 10, 1947 (May), pp. 4-8.

Viktor Ber — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article presents the response of Viktor Ber (one of the pseudonyms of Viktor Petrov) to the article ‘Theory of the Age and Modernity’ by Borys Krupnytskyi and constitutes one of the elements of the general discussion between the two scholars that unfolded on the pages of the Orlyk journal in 1947. The subject of Krupnytskyi`s criticism is Petrov's seeming rejection of the idea of historical development and the use of the concept of the negation of one epoch by another in the historiosophical concept of the change of epochs (Middle Ages, Modern Times, and Our Time). According to Petrov, Krupnytskyi did not quite understand his thesis about the idea of development in history: ‘...I do not reject the idea of development; I reject the idea of development in the sense that the 19th century gave to this concept, which proceeded from the image-idea of a single and universal civilization, which develops undoubtedly according to the universal and always identical principle of linear progress’ (p. 6). In the end, Petrov 1) defends the idea of the complexity of historiosophical issues, in which Krupnytskyi`s concept of ‘layering of epochs’ seems simplistic; 2) emphasizes the significance of the thesis stated in his previous works about the existence of both epochal (peculiar only to a certain epoch) and extra-epochal (cross-cutting for different epochs) categories and phenomena, which serves as further confirmation of the groundlessness of Krupnytskyi`s accusation that Petrov's historiosophy is based on the complete negation of one epoch by another.

Vlada Davidenko

Historiosophical Essays. In MUR [Mystetskyi Ukraiinskyi Ruh], Vol. II, 1946, pp. 7-18; MUR [Mystetskyi Ukraiinskyi Ruh], Collection III, 1947, pp. 7-10.

Viktor Petrov — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Viktor Petrov's article is a central and, to a certain extent, programmatic text for the author's historiosophical concept (in modern language, the concept of ‘historiosophy’ can be understood as the philosophy of history). The text consists of three parts: 1) The Problem of the Epoch, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Apology of Negation; 2) Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Methodological Foundations of the Study of the Epoch; 3) The Problem of Gottfried Keller.

The author's key task is to define the role of negation as a ‘structural norm in the construction of ideologies’ (p. 180). In his opinion, the function of negation in history is one of the leading problems of historiosophy, which is especially pronounced in the process of changing epochs: ‘...when two epochs change, the worldview of the new epoch is created not by itself and not from itself within a given era, but in the struggle against the worldview of the previous one’ (p. 184). The chronological matrix that Petrov focuses on is the consequent change of three epochs: The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the contemporary time (which he calls ‘Our Time’), each of which, as the author shows, emerged against the background of the negation of the dominant worldview of the previous one (the irrational world of the superhuman and supernatural inherent in the Middle Ages was replaced by the modern idea of the rational and natural world, which was eventually replaced by the technical and material world created by machines). According to Petrov, the most successful epistemic guideline is the one aimed at entire cognition, devoid of ‘pluralistic fragmentation’ (p. 193). It is expressed by the concept of the epoch introduced in the ‘historiosophy’ of the first half of the twentieth century, which encompasses the entire temporal and spatial scope of our ideas and concepts and, ultimately, overcomes the particularism of the views on the historical process that dominated in the past.

The article is presented in two versions:

1) The original edition of MUR (1946-1947).

2) Reprinted in the publication ‘Ukraina Moderna’ (2008). The material also contains a commentary on the article by historian Andriy Portnov.

Vlada Davidenko

H. Skovoroda in Shpet's ‘Ocherk razvitiya r. philosophii’ (Gustav Shpet. Essay on the Development of Russian Philosophy. First part. 1922. Petersburg. Kolos Publishing House. Pp. 68-83). In Notes of the Historical and Philological Department of the U.A.S., Book VIII, 1926, pp. 497-503

Viktor Petrov — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Viktor Petrov reviews the first part of Gustav Shpet's article ‘Essay on the Development of Russian Philosophy’, one of the key topics of which is the analysis of the philosophical views of Hryhorii Skovoroda, whom Shpet calls ‘a Russian philosopher’ and puts on a par with other Russian philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Alexander Radishchev and Mykola Novikov. According to Petrov, such a comparison is groundless, as it ‘detaches Skovoroda from the historical soil’, and ‘Skovoroda and, [...], the same Radishchev are people of completely different social environments and not identical cultural traditions’ (p. 497). In addition, Petrov makes a number of methodological remarks to Shpet: 1) regarding ‘a consistent unwillingness to consider the historical perspective’ (p. 498), which is reflected in Shpet's partial and insufficient familiarity with the works of his contemporary Skovoroda scholars and leads to the chronological anachronism of Shpet's research; 2) the inability to distinguish between the real image of Skovoroda, which can be reconstructed from the primary sources of his works, and the image of the philosopher mythologised by the ‘literature about Skovoroda’, which entails the spread of widespread myths about Skovoroda, the most striking example of which is the repetition of the false thesis about Skovoroda's desire to ‘be a Russian Socrates’; 3) the absence of an comprehensive textual analysis of the entire scope of Skovoroda's texts in Shpet's research, which results in Shpet's misunderstanding of the key plots of this philosophy (for example, the difference between the concepts of ‘soul’ and ‘spirit’).

Vlada Davidenko

Review of A. Kovalivskyi. Development of ethical views of H. Skovoroda in connection with his life (Scientific collection of Kharkiv Research Department of History of Ukraine. 1. In memory of academician M. Sumtsov. Rukh Publishing House. Kharkiv, pp. 69-98). In Notes of the Historical and Philological Department, Book V, 1924-1925, pp. 229-233.

Viktor Petrov — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Viktor Petrov reviews the article by Andrii Kovalivskyi, focusing on 1) the key principles of the latter's understanding of the ethical views of Hryhorii Skovoroda's philosophy; 2) the researcher's tracing of their transformations during the life of the wandering philosopher. First, Petrov emphasises the importance of Kovalivskyi's ‘stage’ view of Skovoroda's entire philosophical work, which is represented by the author's ‘three periods of creativity’. In his opinion, these periods reflect changes in both Skovoroda's personal mindset and the socio-historical context in which he lived. In his debate with Kovalivskyi, Petrov highlights the theses with which he disagrees. Firstly, he does not share Kovalivskyi's opinion that the asceticism, irrealism, symbolism and general pessimism characteristic of Skovoroda's first period of work are due to the philosopher's personal break with his social environment. Instead, Petrov argues, this specificity is due to ‘the conditions of historical life in eighteenth-century Ukraine’ (p. 230) and the general decadence of Skovoroda's philosophy, which was heavily influenced by the Alexandrian philosophy of Philo, Plutarch, Plotinus, and Origen. Secondly, Petrov undermines Kovalinskyi's thesis about the universalism of Skovoroda's ethical views, which are characteristic of the second period of his work. In Petrov's opinion, extra-communal and ascetic tendencies are inherent not only in the first period, but in Skovoroda's entire philosophy, which makes it contradictory and impossible to practice fully. In conclusion, Petrov agrees with Kovalivskyi that it is necessary to describe all the contradictions in Skovoroda's philosophy in order to confirm the hypothesis of its dialectical nature.

Vlada Davidenko

Our Time as it is (Regarding Norman Cousins' article “Modern Man is Obsolete”. The Saturday Review of Literature. New York. Neue Auslese V. 1946). In Ukrainian Historical Journal, No 3, 2015, pp. 194-211.

Viktor Petrov — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The material (a contemporary edition of Petrov's article) consists of two parts: a foreword by historian Oleksii Yas, which provides a brief overview of Viktor Petrov's article, and the article itself with added historiographical notes. The article is devoted to a detailed analysis of the social, political, and ideological changes that humanity experienced in the postwar period. The author uses the historiosophical methodology (in modern language, the methodology of the philosophy of history) to outline the peculiarities of the era he witnessed and the differences between this era and the previous ones (the Middle Ages and the Modern Age). Petrov's philosophical and anthropological conclusions and warnings about humanity's entry into the ‘age of atomic energy’ (p. 202) are in line with what Cousins is talking about. In particular, Cousins' thesis about the gap between ‘revolutionary technology and revolutionary anthropology’, which was characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century, seems to be significant for Petrov. In the end, the author agrees with the key conclusion of Cousins' text: ‘we are entering the age of nuclear energy completely unprepared’ (p. 202).

Vlada Davidenkо

Christianity and the present time. In Orlyk, No 2, 1947, pp. 15-18.

Viktor Petrov — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Viktor Petrov's article presents the author's reflections on the nature and ideological content of the Second World War, which, at the time of publication, had ended two years earlier. The author draws several important conclusions: 1) this war was not only a war of two imperialisms (national socialist and Bolshevik), but also a war of ‘two worlds’ (p. 15) - the democratic world and the national socialist world; 2) the Second World War can be considered a kind of ideological continuation of the First World War: ‘If the First World War [...] was defined as a war for the high achievements of civilization, democratic and pacifist ideals of progress and freedom, law, morality, humanity, [...], then this was even more clearly revealed in this second war’ (ibid. ); 3) the emergence of national socialism became possible due to a whole range of historical reasons: misinterpreted ideas of the Enlightenment, the reaction to the Peace of Versailles, the fascination with the Nietzschean concept of the superman, and - most importantly - the complete absorption and replacement of the church by the state, which led the Fuhrer to assume the role of the harbinger of Providence; 4) the technical achievements of mankind, which are the result of the long dominance of a rationalistic attitude to the world, have turned out to be non-ethical, and a person who has witnessed the destructive power of technology should rethink his spiritual opposition to the natural world, in which the Christian faith can help.

Vlada Davidenko

Excursions into art: Pro domo sua. Something about the method. In Ridne slovo, No. 12, 1946, pp. 57-65.

Viktor Ber — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The article presents the reflections of Viktor Ber (one of the pseudonyms of Viktor Petrov) on the research vision that was widespread in the first half of the twentieth century - the negation of the idea of the continuity of history in the humanities (in particular, in the philosophy of history - ‘historiography’). The article consists of four parts: 1) Pro domo sua. Something about the method; 2) Mosaics of Ravenna and Ribeira; 3) Modern Art and Modern Physics; 4) The Futurist Manifesto of 1909, re-read today.

In the first part, he refers to Hegel's dialectical method to show his understanding of historiography: ‘In the gradation of epochs, each subsequent epoch can be said to construct itself through negation, to oppose itself to the previous one, and to be the negative form of this previous one. At the same time a negation and an affirmation’ (p. 59).

In the second part, the author compares two works of art - a fragment of the sixth-century mosaic ‘Adoration of the Magi’ in the Church of St. Apollinari (Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo) in Ravenna and the eponymous painting by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera of 1650. This comparison is due to the author's desire to show how the ideology and worldview inherent in each of the eras are reflected in art. Based on the results of the analysis of the artistic features of each work, he argues that the art of the early Middle Ages is characterised by a metaphysical-theistic worldview, and the art of the modern period - by a humanistic-naturalistic one.

In the third part, the author emphasises that contemporary art and physics, independently of each other, ‘have shown a tendency to develop in the same direction’ (p. 63), as has contemporary philosophy, which rejects the concepts of time and space of classical physics.

In the fourth part, Ber proposes to rethink the odious pre-war manifesto of the Futurists, published in 1909 in the journal Figaro, from the perspective of the First and Second World Wars.

Vlada Davidenko

From the history of philosophy and sociology in Ukraine. Republican interdepartmental collection: Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 1968, 181 p.

V. Yu. Yevdokymenko et al. (ed.) — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The collection covers a wide range of issues in the history of philosophical and sociological thought in Ukraine (from the second half of the eighteenth century to the 1960s). In particular, it examines the struggle between materialism and idealism in the nineteenth century, the development of dialectical and historical materialism, aesthetics and logic in the Soviet period. Special attention is paid to the revolutionary democratic ideology and socialist ideas in Ukraine. The issues of philosophical thought in the Western Ukraine are covered.

The book is intended for teachers, scholars, and students of humanities.

Editorial board: V. Yu. Yevdokymenko (executive editor), I. P. Golovakha, V. I. Hubenko, V. S. Dmytrychenko, I. V. Ivanyo, M. M. Oleksiuk, O. Ya. Pavelko

CONTENTS
V. I. Hubenko – From the study of the structure of knowledge by philosophers of Soviet Ukraine
V. S. Horskyi – The problem of correlation between philosophy and politics in the works of Ukrainian Soviet scholars
I. V. Ivanyo – Lenin's ideological heritage and the development of aesthetics in Ukraine in the 20s
V. A. Romenets – Methodological issues of studying the relationship between the mental and physiological in Ukrainian science
M. Z. Yushmanov – Issues of philosophical evolution of Marx and Engels in the works of Ukrainian philosophers of the 20-30s
M. P. Chelak – Lenin's book "Materialism and Empirio-criticism" and the struggle against idealism and religion in Ukraine (1909-1910)
S. H. Lavrov – To the question of the socio-political environment of M. Kotsiubynskyi and some worldview features of his novel "Laughter"
Ye. V. Proniuk – From the history of socialist ideas in Ukraine (Ukrainian socialist literature of the 70s years of the XIX century)
V. S. Dmytrychenko – To the assessment of socialist views of M. P. Drahomanov (1841-1895)
S. M. Shevchenko – I. Ya. Franko on the role of the masses in the development of spiritual culture
К. H. Plaksiuk – V. P. Levynskyi – propagandist of historical materialism in Western Ukraine
B. L. Kukhta – From the history of the struggle for the establishment of proletarian ideology in Western Ukraine in the early 20s of the XX century
S. L. Stupnytskyi – On the role of progressive forces of Western Ukraine in the atheistic education of workers (20-30s of the XX century)
M. I. Sundyrieva – Materialistic views of V. I. Lapshyn
I. V. Osichniuk – On the struggle for materialism in natural sciences in Ukraine in the late XVIII — Early XIX Centuries
V. M. Nichyk - To the study of the history of logic in Ukraine. The manuscript heritage of V. A. Belyaev
V. V. Tselishchev - Ontological ideas of the Lviv–Warsaw school