The Influence of Hegel’s Ideas on the Work of V. Shynkaruk as the Founder of Kyiv Philosophical School

Abstract

The article explores the key ideas of the famous Ukrainian researcher V. Shynkaruk. It is noted that in his works the researcher paid considerable attention to the problem of cognition, activity, worldview, anthropological topics. In particular, the researcher proposed a distinction between worldview and scientific knowledge, as well as a distinction between worldview and ideology. It is emphasized that the works of V. Shynkaruk were influenced by the ideas of representatives of German classical philosophy, in particular G. Hegel. It is noted that the Ukrainian researcher paid considerable attention to the study of Hegel’s epistemology and ontology. A significant merit of Hegel, according to the Ukrainian researcher, is that he, studying the problems of cognition of being, created a dialectical logic. Hegel set out his epistemological and ontological ideas in “The Science of Logic and The Phenomenology of the Spirit”, which we will consider in more detail. It teaches the theory of cognition, logic of the history of learning the environment.Emphasis is placed on the fact that V. Shynkaruk, like I. Kant and G. Hegel, pays considerable attention to the problem of reason, seeing in it a key moral and spiritual basis on which man gets the opportunity to preserve his “I”, to organize his own existence and determine its sense. Without such an ordering of one's own existence – in legal, ontological and moral-spiritual terms – a person will not be able to fulfill a purpose unique to him in all respects. Therefore, V. Shynkaruk is considered one of the founders of human-centered philosophy, the successor of the ideas not only of the representatives of German classical philosophy – I. Kant and G. Hegel but also of the Ukrainian philosophers H. Skovoroda and P. Yurkevych.