History of Philosophy in Ukraine. Anthology: Study Guide. Kyiv: Lybid, 1993, 560 p.

This anthology presents excerpts from the works of Ukrainian thinkers from the era of Kyivan Rus to the 20th century. The selected texts illustrate the development of philosophical and socio-political thought in Ukraine. The texts are accompanied by biographical information about their authors.

Contents

Preface

PREREQUISITES FOR THE EMERGENCE AND FORMATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT IN KYIVAN RUS

HILARION OF KYIV
Sermon on Law and Grace

DANYLO ZATOCHENYK
The Word of Danylo Zatochenyk, Written to His Prince Yaroslav Volodymyrovych

KYRYK OF NOVGOROD
Instruction on How a Person May Know the Calculation of All Years

THE IZBORNIK OF 1073
On the Person

KYRYLO THE PHILOSOPHER
On the 14th Day of February: The Life, Conduct, and Deeds of Our Holy Father Constantine the Philosopher, First Mentor and Teacher of the Slavic People

KLYM SMOLIATYCH
Epistle Written by Klym, Metropolitan of Rus, to Presbyter Khoma; Interpreted by the Monk Afanasii

THE BEE
The Book of the Bee: Discourses and Wisdom Drawn from the Gospel and the Apostle, from Holy Men, and from the Insights of Secular Thinkers and Philosophers

PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN BROTHERHOOD SCHOOLS

ISAIAH KOPYNSKYI
The Spiritual Alphabet, or The Ladder of Monastic Life in God, Containing 33 Chapters — Modeled on the Earthly Life of the Lord in the Flesh — Representing 33 Steps

VITALII OF DUBNO
Dioptra — That Is, a Mirror or Depiction of Human Life in the World — Compiled from Numerous Holy Scriptures and the Dogmas of the Church Fathers, and Translated from Greek into Slavonic by the Ever-Memorable Father Vitalii, Abbot of Dubno

KYRYLO TRANKVILION-STAVROVETSKYI
On the Creation of Heaven and Earth, of This Visible World and All Within It; On the Creation of Man, Who Is Called the Microcosm

KASIIAN SAKOVYCH
A Treatise on the Soul in General, Written by the Reverend Father Kasiian Sakovych, a Monk of the Greek Rite

THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL THOUGHT IN UKRAINE, 16th–FIRST HALF OF THE 17th CENTURY

STANISLAV ORIKHOVSKYI-ROKSOLAN
Admonition to the Polish King

CHRYSTOFOR FILALET
Apokrysis, or a Reply to the Books Concerning the Council of Brest, Issued Promptly on Behalf of the People of the Ancient Greek Religion by Khrystofor Filalet

IVAN VYSHENSKYI
A Book

PYLYP ORLYK
Deduction of the Rights of Ukraine

PHILOSOPHY AT THE KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY

INOKENTII HIZEL
A Treatise on the Whole of Philosophy

FEOFAN PROKOPOVYCH
Logic
Natural Philosophy, or Physics

HEORHII SHCHERBATSKYI
For the Greater Glory of the Thrice-Merciful and Almighty God, and in Anticipation of a Successful and Fruitful Conclusion, on September 17, 1751, at the Kyiv Academy — God Granting the Strength — There Will Be Presented and Expounded to the Intellectual Flower of the Youth a Set of Guidelines Compiled to Facilitate the Reading of Ancient and Modern Philosophers

HRYHORII SAVYCH SKOVORODA
Dialogue. Its Name Is the Serpent's Flood

PETRO DMYTROVYCH LODIY
A Brief Introduction to Metaphysics

UKRAINIAN ROMANTICISM

MYKOLA VASYLOVYCH HOHOL
In the Quiet Swamp ("Hogol and the Devil") (D. MEREZHKOVSKYI)

MYKOLA IVANOVYCH KOSTOMAROV
The Books of the Genesis of the Ukrainian People
Two Rus Nationalities

PANTELEIMON KULISH
Panteleimon Kulish (D. CHYZHEVSKYI)

TARAS HRYHOROVYCH SHEVCHENKO
On Shevchenko's Worldview (D. CHYZHEVSKYI)

ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY

PAMFIL DANYLOVYCH YURKEVYCH
The Idea
The Heart and Its Significance in the Spiritual Life of Man According to the Teaching of the Word of God
From the Science of the Human Spirit
Materialism and the Task of Philosophy
Regarding Articles of a Theological Nature Contained in the "Philosophical Lexicon" (Critical-Philosophical Excerpts)
Reason According to Plato and Experience According to Kant

VOLODYMYR VIKTOROVYCH LESEVYCH
Philosophy of History on a Scientific Basis (An Essay on the History of 19th-Century Culture)
Positivism After Comte
An Attempt at a Critical Examination of the Foundations of Positive Philosophy
From Comte to Avenarius

HEORHII IVANOVYCH CHELPANOV
Brain and Soul (A Critique of Materialism and an Outline of Contemporary Theories of the Soul)
The Problem of Space Perception in Relation to the Doctrine of A Priori Knowledge and Innateness

MYKHAILO PETROVYCH DRAHOMANOV
"Foreword" (to "Hromada," 1878)
Shevchenko, Ukrainophiles, and Socialism
Peculiar Thoughts on the Ukrainian National Cause
Wasted Time

UKRAINIAN PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE 20th CENTURY

IVAN YAKOVYCH FRANKO
Lucian and His Era
Science and Its Relationship with the Working Classes
Who Should Be Ashamed of This?
Beyond the Bounds of the Possible

LESIA UKRAIINKA
Utopia in Fiction
State Structure
Notes on the Article "Politics and Ethics"

VOLODYMYR KYRYLOVYCH VYNNYCHENKO
The Struggle for Ukrainian Statehood
Moral-Aesthetic Position
Observations of a Non-Professional: Marxism and Art

VASYL VASYLOVYCH ZENKOVSKYI
The Problem of Psychic Causality

DMYTRO DONTSOV
Nationalism
The Spirit of Our Antiquity

VIACHESLAV LYPYNSKYI
Letters to Fellow Agrarians

DMYTRO IVANOVYCH CHYZHEVSKYI
Work in the Field of Philosophy
Beginnings and Ends of Modern Ideological Eras
Ethics and Logic
Viacheslav Lypynskyi as a Philosopher of History

IVAN LYSIAK-RUDNYTSKYI
Ukraine Between East and West
Ukraine's Role in Modern History

PHILOSOPHY IN UKRAINE (1920s–1980s)

Index of Names