The Skovoroda Session of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. In Ukrainian news, 1972, 14th December, p. 6.

This publication summarizes the proceedings of a public session of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canada held to mark the 250th anniversary of Hryhorii Skovoroda's birth.

In the first paper, Kachur argues that Skovoroda should be regarded primarily as a theologian rather than a philosopher, given the significant influence of Erasmus of Rotterdam on his views.

In the second paper, Pohorilyi links the forgetting of Skovoroda's legacy to changes in language and style of philosophizing, as well as to the symbolic character of his works. He also analyzes the symbolism found in the thinker's body of work.

In the third paper, Yaroslav Slavutych examines the linguistic features of Skovoroda's writing. In his view, the decline of the Ukrainian language during the philosopher's lifetime affected the reception of his legacy and led to conflicting assessments by researchers. The author concludes that Skovoroda wrote in the Old Ukrainian literary language of its final period, and also criticizes the practice of reprinting his works from Russified texts rather than from the original manuscripts.