Selected works: Idea-Heart-Mind and Experience (transl. from Russian by Stepan Yarmus):, Winnipeg, St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg, 1984, 167 p.

The collection contains three separate works by Pamfil D. Yurkevych: “Idea,” “Heart,” and “Mind and Experience.” This is the first Ukrainian translation of these works from their original Russian-language editions. The translation was done by Stepan Yarmus. In addition to this edition, there are also translations of these texts into French and English. The book is accompanied by a preface, an afterword, as well as biographical and chronological notes prepared by the translator.

Contents

Photo of Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych

Foreword

Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych

(a) Brief biographical information

(b) Chronological data

IDEA

Definitive concept of an idea Forms of cognition

The problem of consciousness and world perception

Idea – a problem of philosophy

Idea – a necessary assumption of science

Idea – the basis of phenomena

Ideas – eternal spiritual elements of the world

Idea – the divine and intelligent in the cosmos

Idea – the basis of everything immortal, beautiful, and real

Plato's science of ideas – incomplete

Idea – the form of an object

God – not an idea, but self-awareness, unconditional thought and reality

Contradictions between Plato and Aristotle

The philosophy of modern times and the problem of pre-experiential ideas

Criticism of the assumptions of Cartesian philosophy

The place of the world – God

Ideas, the essence of the world, substances

Being and spirit. The universe and the monad

The pure monad is God

The significance of the critique of pure reason

The problem of matter and the form of cognition

A critical review of new teachings about ideas

The idea as a dialectical process

The dialectical process and the absolute. The process of ideas

Logical idea. The general essence of the idea

The idea as pure being, or nothingness. The abstractness of the idea

Some critical comparisons

Final conclusions and explanations

The difficulties of philosophy. Theosophy, materialism, idealism

Our most essential thing

HEART

1. “Heart” as understood by the authors of Holy Scripture

Introduction

The essence of the “heart”

The importance of the teachings of the Holy Authors

The “heart” and “head” of man

The “head” and “face” of man in Holy Scripture

Biblical teaching and science

The deeper essence of the soul

The essence of the soul is not in thinking

Conscious activity of the soul and the brain

The facts of physiology do not contradict biblical science

The organ of the soul is the whole body of man

Thinking is not the depth of the heart

The essence of the soul is inaccessible

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. The value of experiences and knowledge

The slowness of the mind

The apparent and actual state of man

The problem of the autonomy of the mind

Psychology and the essence of the human soul

Personality and its concreteness

The shortcomings of mysticism

1. Practical applications

Personality is not subject to any mechanism

The problem of causality in spiritual life and religious consciousness The source of moral phenomena is the godlikeness of man

The weakening of the heart. The necessity of grace

The legal and moral aspects of deeds of truth

The laws of justice

The moral is not without feat

The problem of legislation

III. Final remarks

Legislation and the power of temptation (trial of character)

Moral activity. The oil of love and its lamp

The voice of conscience

Burning with love for one's neighbor

Conclusion

MIND AND EXPERIENCE

Introduction

Some remarks and definitions

Dominant worldview beliefs

Subject of this work

Plato's science of the mind

General human meaning and ideas

Explanation of Socrates' dialogue with Theaetetus

Human speech and ideas

Form of abstract thinking and ideas

The discovery of the higher essence of things and ideas

The existence of things

The substantiality of ideas

The idea of good (transcendent), to agathon

The formal quality of ideas

Ideas – the discovery of the essence of things

Two eras in the development of science

The influence of Platonic thought on the development of science

A new direction – criticism of pure reason

The science of experience

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

Phenomena and representations

Kant's functions of the subject (experience)

The compatibility of the heterogeneous – imaginary

Criticism and explanation

Kant's functions of the knowing subject

The basis of the differences between Plato and Kant

Kant's shortcomings

The consequences of Kant's conclusions

Corrections to Kant

The doctrine of schemata

Inductive and deductive methods

Elucidation of Kant's position

Elucidation of Plato's position

The fallacy of Kant's doctrine of experience

Afterword