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

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