Civilizational and historical origins of the Ukrainian people’s awareness

Abstract

Analyzed civilizational and historical factors of public awareness genesis in Ukraine. It is noted that the development of any civilization has two components chrono-vertical and chrono-horizontal. It is alleged that the Ukrainian people’s awareness combines the values of eastern and western cultural and civilizational systems, privileging the second one. Determined features of the Ukrainian people’s legal consciousness in historical retrospective. In this context was analyzed directions of development and was singled features as institutional and non-institutional sense of justice in Ukraine. Emphasized that civilizational and historical development of the Ukrainian people is characterized with stages, inconsistency and cultural features. In its turn, sense of justice in Ukraine based on axiological basis using the following basic constants: patriotism; justice; sense of national dignity; responsibility for the fate of the motherland; awareness of the importance of implementation of individual rights and freedoms in the domestic environment; respect for the rights and freedoms of other nations; recognition of the intrinsic value of Ukrainian culture and language.

Keywords

• sense of justice
• public sense of justice
• civilizational type
• culture
• institution of justice
• non-institutional sense of justice.