Loneliness and begging as social sentences to the moralizing talent

Abstract

The presented article is part of a considerable series of author's investigations on the problem of personification of Ukrainian history. The prepared study is dedicated to the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist of the 18th century Hryhoriy Savich Skovoroda (1722—1794). The scale of the personality of this figure of the national Enlightenment era is impressive not only in the number of branches of science related to him (philosophy, historiosophy, religious studies, pedagogy, psychology, etc.), but also in the brightness of the ideas expressed by him, which have not lost their relevance to this day. Among the latter, both the Socratic "Know thyself" transformed from antiquity, and the "related work" formula compiled by H. Skovoroda himself, which forms the foundation for the growth of such an innovative parameter of modern life as the index of human happiness, dominate. The humanist writer imprinted in science the signs of the dialectical mobility of thought, which is in permanent search and surprise on the way to the truth. The purpose of the presented article is to update and enrich the historiography of the problem of the national Skovorodiana with the help of the materials of the State Print Archive. Relying on the existing printed material (book, magazine, newspaper, sheet, etc.) stored in the Book Chamber of Ukraine, the author emphasized the existing information about H. Skovorodа biobibliography. The presented research was carried out within the framework of scientific and exhibition activities of the Book Chamber of Ukraine named after Ivan Fedorov and is aimed at the implementation of the educational direction of Ukrainian studies of the named institution.