V. Vynnychenko’s Works and His Ethical and Philosophical Vision of the World’s “Reorganization”

Abstract

The article considers the history of creation and the main provisions of the ethical and philosophical vision of the world’s “reorganization” created by extraordinary Ukrainian politician and writer V. Vynnychenko (1880–1951) in 1920–1930s based on the principle of “honesty with oneself,” tested by the author both in literary texts of the 1910s and in the private life. The concept, called by the thinker “concordism” (from French сoncorde — concord) and created on the synthesis of Marxism, Nietzschean, and Freudian ideas, is founded on the utopian idea that a new international and social order should be based on the voluntary consent among the countries and the harmony between the man and the society, the man and the nature, which could be possible only under the condition of inner harmony of each person. According to Vynnychenko, it could be obtained if a person follows a certain set of rules containing both moral guidelines and biomedical technologies. However, the principle of “honesty with oneself” (unity of thought, feeling, and deed) remained crucial to him.

Keywords

• vynnychenko
• “being honest with yourself
• ” concordism
• harmony
• happiness
• ukrainian literature
• “new man.”