History of Philosophy in Ukraine (in 3 volumes). Vol. I: Philosophy of the Feudal Era. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 1987, 399 p.

Authors

Volodymyr Shynkaruk

Keywords:

history of philosophy, History of Ukrainian philosophy, Ukrainian philosophy

Synopsis

Contents

PREFACE
PREFACE TO VOLUME 1

CHAPTER 1
Mythological Concepts of East Slavic Tribes (5th-9th Centuries)

  1. The Worldview and Spiritual Culture of the East Slavs: Historical Genesis
  2. The Cosmos in the System of Slavic Mythology and Folklore
  3. The Human Being in the Worldview of the Ancient Slavs: Moral, Aesthetic, and Legal Concepts
  4. Primal Religious Concepts within the System of Spiritual Culture

CHAPTER 2
Philosophical Thought in the Era of Kyivan Rus (10th-13th Centuries)

  1. Sources of the Formation of Philosophical Thought in Kyivan Rus
  2. Concepts of God and the Universe
  3. Wisdom, Knowledge, and Revelation
  4. Humanity and History
  5. Moral Concepts
  6. Aesthetic Consciousness

CHAPTER 3
Philosophical Ideas in the Spiritual Culture of the Period of the Formation of the Ukrainian Nationality (13th-15th Centuries)

  1. Historical Self-Consciousness and Historiosophical Ideas in 13th-15th Century Chronicles
  2. Worldview Concepts in Epic Sources
  3. Philosophical Ideas of Eastern Patristics in Ukraine (13th-15th Centuries)
  4. Philosophical Ideas of Neoplatonism in Ukraine: Areopagitic Writings and Hesychasm
  5. The Philosophical Content of Hagiographic Literature
  6. Heretical Teachings and Freethinking
  7. Pre-Renaissance Trends and Phenomena in the Second Half of the 15th Century

CHAPTER 4
The Ideology of Pre-Bourgeois Movements and the Formation of Humanist and Reformation Ideas (16th - Early 17th Centuries)

  1. Early Humanism
  2. The Role of the Ostroh Cultural and Educational Center in the Emergence and Development of Reformation and Humanist Ideas
  3. Polemical Literature and Its Socio-Political and Philosophical Content
  4. Ivan Vyshenskyi
  5. Reflections of Counter-Reformation Ideas in Ukrainian Philosophical Thought
  6. Reformation and Humanist Ideas in Brotherhood Schools
  7. The Scholarly Circle of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Printing House

CHAPTER 5
The Dissolution of the Medieval Ecclesiastical-Theological Worldview. Philosophy at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (17th - First Half of the 18th Century)

  1. Humanist ideas in the rhetoric courses of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors
  2. Issues in natural philosophy: the beginning of the convergence between philosophy and natural science
  3. Theory of knowledge and logic
  4. Teachings on the state. State and church
  5. Re-evaluating feudal conceptions of the human being and the moral realm
  6. The development of aesthetic views at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
  7. Feofan Prokopovych
  8. The role of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the development of the philosophical culture of Eastern and Southern Slavs and in the reunification of Ukraine and Belarus with Russia

CHAPTER 6
Enlightenment Philosophy in Ukraine (Second Half of the 18th-Early 19th Century)

  1. Enlightenment thinkers' views on society and the state
  2. Enlightenment thinkers' ideas on natural philosophy, logic, and epistemology
  3. The philosophy of Hryhorii Skovoroda
  4. Religious-mystical concepts. Freemasonry

CONCLUSIONS

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October 1, 2026

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