Українознавство (Nov 2020)
Peculiarities of Developing the Problem of Ukrainian Mentality by Philosophers of the Kyiv School (Social and Value Aspects)
Abstract
The search for the foundations of spiritual resistance to threats and challenges of the consolidation processes in Ukraine presupposes the actualization of the problem of the Ukrainian mentality in the social and humanitarian space of the state. A modern view of the problem of the Ukrainian mentality is impossible without an idea of how this problem was solved by philosophers who worked in Ukraine which had just gained the right for its own statehood after being in the shackles of the Soviet Union. Indicative in this regard are the thoughts and ideas of philosophers of the Kyiv school, who since the 1960s had made an anthropological and personalistic “breakthrough” in domestic philosophy, and in the early 1990s began the research in the field of Ukrainian philosophy of culture, paying considerable attention, in particular, to the problem of the Ukrainian mentality. The article analyzes the peculiarities of the development of the problem of Ukrainian mentality by the philosophers of the Kyiv school I. Bychko, S. Krymskyi, M. Popovych. The emphasis is placed on the social and value aspects of the development of the problem of the Ukrainian mentality as a cordocentric worldview phenomenon (I. Bychko); as a formation of national consciousness (S. Krymskyi); as a way of thinking in culture (M. Popovych). It is underlined that the problem of the Ukrainian mentality was developed by the philosophers of the Kyiv school in the way of latent discursive interaction with the Western European philosophical thought. It is argued that identifying the heuristic potential of philosophical research of the Kyiv school philosophers in the field of Ukrainian mentality can become a solid basis and material for generalization to continue developing the problem of Ukrainian mentality through the prism of the modern socio-axiological dimension.
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