THE PROBLEM OF THE VALUE SYSTEM AND THE VALUATION CATEGORY IN THE HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

Abstract

The value theory, which was formed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, emphasises that evaluation establishes value relations between the subject and the object and leads to different approaches in linguistic philosophical systems. In view of this, the article aims to analyse the emergence and formation of the value system and the valuation category in the history of Ukrainian linguistic and philosophical thought. The object of study is the main works of Ukrainian thinkers and philosophers from the Kyivan Rus period to the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century, which deal with linguistic axiological problems. The subject of the article is an analysis of the contribution of Ukrainian philosophers to the theory of the value system. The relevance of the study is due to the interest of linguists in the origins of problems related to the nature of the relationship between language and the world around us, with human consciousness and thought. It is emphasised that axiological concepts (system of values, evaluation) were at the centre of Ukrainian philosophical thought, occupying a leading place in the works of thinkers and philosophers such as Metropolitan Hilarion, I. Vyshensky, H. Skovoroda, I. Franko, P. Yurkevych, O. Potebnia, and D. Chyzhevsky. The focus of the research is on the concept of value system and evaluation categories, which are reflected in language structures according to the value parameters of the objective world (good/bad, positive/negative, own/other, etc.). Prospects for further research are seen in the study of the valuation category in the linguistic and pragmatic and linguistic and cultural aspects.