Abstract
The article emphasizes that Hryhoriі Skovoroda considered man's desire for freedom, freedom from sin to be the highest gift, the good for a man, the main goal and measure stick of his life, and he directly connected the “spirit of freedom” with God. We certainly mean the idea of the inner freedom of a person, which frees a person from the pulls and burdens of the pre-temporal material world. As an example of restraint from falling into sin, Hryhoriі Skovoroda cites the biblical story of Lot, who, having broken the chains of sin, managed to survive in the Sodom hell. The Sodom discourse started in the biblical texts, developed in the treatises of Hryhoriі Skovoroda, has its continuation in the real pictures of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but already with a completely opposite meaning to its biblical and Skovoroda’s meanings. For modern Ukrainians, the slogan “Will (freedom) or death” has become a guide to liberating and radical actions. The semantics of the concept of “freedom” nowadays, in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, is interpreted on a par with the concept of “life”
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