The value paradigmal of Ukrainian geopolitical thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Journal Title: ИДЕИ. ФИЛОСОФСКО СПИСАНИЕ - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
In this article is analyzes the works of prominent Ukrainian geopolitical thinkers of the late XIX – early XX centuries (M.Drahomanov, S. Podolinsky, M.Mihnovsky, Yu.Bachinsky, M.Hrushevsky, V.Vynnychenko, W. Lipinski, S. Rudnytcky, O. Bochkovsky, A.Syniavsky, N.Stsiborsky, V.Starosolsky, S.Dnistryansky, S. Shelukhin, Yu.Lypa, etc.). It is proved that these thinkers at a high scientific level investigated history of the Ukrainian nation, its mentality, culture, and values. It is emphasized the priority for national geopolitical thought the values inherent to the modern highly developed societies: the value of person as a spiritual being, who strive for self-seeking, freedom, social justice, equality of rights, etc. It is revealed a vision by domestic researchers of geopolitical interests and priorities of Ukraine’s development, which is traced to determine their destination of Ukrainian state, the implementation of its internal and external geopolitical content. It is shown that the core values, interests and priorities of Ukraine, which were identified by national researchers in the late XIX – at the first half of the XX centuries are still relevant at present. The opinion that, despite the significant geopolitical changes that have occurred in the world since that time, remained unchanged Ukraine's strategic location at the crossroads of European and Asian civilizations, so it not only opens up possibilities, but even obliges it to become the communications chain, uniting the West and East, North and South.
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Petro Fedoruk
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