Ethical Worldview Research Articles

Addressing Qurʾan 4:34: Muslim Feminists’ Hermeneutics vs. Mahmoud Muhammad Taha’s Hermeneutics

Abstract How to approach the Qurʾan to say ‘no’ to Q.4:34? This article explores the question by analyzing and evaluating the approaches to the Qurʾan by Muslim feminists and the Sudanese Sufi scholar, Mahmoud Muhammad Taha (d. 1985). The article argues that Taha’s hermeneutical approach to the Qurʾan which categorizes the ethical verses in the Qurʾan as universal and the legal verses in the Qurʾan as historical, provides a coherent framework for saying ‘no’ to this verse. On the other hand, Muslim feminists, such as Amina Wadud, Asma Barlas and Riffat Hassan, approach the Qurʾan by way of reinterpreting those verses in the Qurʾan which have a literal meaning reflecting gender inequality. These feminists reinterpret these verses considering the overall ethical worldview of the Qur’an and the ethical verses which contain notions of equality and justice. However, in the reinterpretation of these verses considering the ethical worldview, these feminists, in our view, rather end up misinterpreting the Qurʾan.

Transhumanism As An Ethical Worldview Model: Prospects For Development

In this article, the authors consider the phenomenon of transhumanism in the context of its relationship with the process of globalization. It has been established that the concept of transhumanism is usually understood as a trend that uses the achievements of science and technology for the development of a human being’s physical and mental abilities, and yet the talk is even about the transformation of human nature. Based on the results of the study, the authors consider transhumanism to be only one of the vectors for the embodiment of globalization. In addition, the study zeroes in on the concept of humanism, which, obviously, has received its modification at the present stage in the form of the concept of transhumanism and posthumanism. The authors argue that humanism and transhumanism proceed from the recognition of a person as the highest value in the natural world and in the world of culture, however, transhumanism is more radical, since it contributes not only to traditional means of improving human nature, but also to immediate application of medicine and technology to overcome some of our limitations. The authors also note that it is difficult to clearly identify its status in the contemporary society. With regard to this, the article highlights the challenges and threats facing humanity as a result of the development of science and technology, considering which, it is necessary to establish «acceptable limits» for their application in order to protect human nature and identity.

‘Swear by Thy Gracious Self’: North American Medical Oath-Taking in 2014/2015

Over the past century, six studies – the most recent data from 2000 – and one review have comprehensively examined the content of medical oaths and oath-taking practices, all focusing on North America, providing an insight into the ethical beliefs of each era. Our study sought to establish a new point of reference. In 2014/2015, oaths from 150 of all 153 US and Canadian medical schools were collected and analyzed. All but one school administered medical oaths and most schools administered more than one. Since 2000, student-written oaths became more popular, and new themes, such as self-care and professionalism, were identified in the oaths for the first time. However, as was identified in 2000, the oaths’ contents are disparate and even conflicting at times, raising questions as to whether medicine is being taught or practiced with a coherent ethical worldview.

Journey is cognition: about the concept of travel and the typology of travelers in Croatian Tales of Long Ago

Following the theory of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 2015) which indicates the connection between language and opinion, the interpretation of the fairy tale journey in Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, placed in the literary-theoretical and literary-historical context of a fairy tale (Težak 1997, Bošković-Stulli 2012, Propp 2012, Winter 2001), encompasses the process of understanding unknown things using known ones. The concept of journey, functionally adaptable to the different semantic matrix of the narrative text (Duda 1998), presupposes knowledge of journey as a culturally conditioned category with constructed meanings: departure, return, transformation, search, exploration, adventure, punishment, penance, temptation, obstacles, maturation, staying, cognition, misfortune, end, joy, etc. By connecting the two conceptual domains, the source one and the target one, the possibility of perceiving their ontological correspondence opens up. In addition to the fact that the journey presupposes the crossing of semantic fields in the bodily sense (Lotman 2001), it is interpreted through the prism of a metaphorical journey whose ultimate goal is to reach certain cognitions. The reasons that motivate Propp defined heroes - seekers and victims - to go on a journey are different, and they are motivated by a lack, material or spiritual. The concept of journey, realized in the fairy tale opus Croatian Tales of Long Ago as a journey through the celestial, terrestrial and underground/underwater world, is functionally realized through subordinate ontological metaphors of escape, temptation, staying, departure or return. The superior conceptual metaphor journey is cognition/ journey is maturation, derived from spatial topography and semantic changes inscribed in it by literary heroes - travellers, proves their ontological status summarized in gaining or confirming a highly ethical worldview realized by travel.

STATE POLICY DIRECTIONS IN THE FACE OF WAR CHALLENGES

The article explores the process of directing representatives of public administration in the direction of humanitarian-oriented development of the state in an era of challenges and changes during martial law. The modern world order is in a state of intensive transformation, which involves the redistribution of leverage and control over planetary resources, a globalized financial and economic system, the energy sector, the acquisition of new territories, the regulation and dominance of high-tech communications, the acquisition of control over models and mechanisms of an effective international security system. Emphasizing the problems of the orientation of the national policy of the state in the face of the challenges of war, we realize that there is a war of civilization with anti-civilization, we think that it is a balanced, responsible and effective – functioning policy requires a humanitarian and ethical basis, taking into account the best world and European experience in solving these issues. Hence the main questions that determine the effectiveness of the state's use of objective potencies of human potential a) that and in what way society, the state, the authorities can and can give people of different age categories who have fallen into difficult life circumstances as a result of the loss of home, property, life losses of relatives and friends; b) how to develop the moral and ethical worldview of citizens, and especially the younger generation, which is actively involved in defending the independence of the country in order to motivate society to rebuild the country after victory, reduce tension and aggression in the public environment. The orientation of the state policy is considered in the direction of a successful life start of young people, their personal self-determination and the realization of professional potential for the benefit of society, the state as a whole. A comprehensive solution of these and other issues is possible under the condition of a holistic, clearly verified purposeful policy of the state, the purpose of which is to coordinate the activities of all subjects of the country, to create the most favorable conditions for social adaptation of people in conditions of challenges and threats with the prospect of civilizational development of the country, humanistic changes.

A Discussion on the Ethical Worldview Established in Yang Xiong’s Fu Poetry

Abstract Yang Xiong lived through the collapse of the Former Han and emergence of the Later Han dynasty. His fu poetry creations and their critiques reflect significant shifts in thinking and new ideas, a very prominent one of which is the establishment of a particular ethical perspective. Yang Xiong’s callbacks to the virtues of the Zhou dynasty exhibited in his fu poetry were used to establish his concept of “virtues of the Han”. This is reflected most conspicuously in his “Sweet Springs Palace” and his “Tall Poplars Lodge”. These demonstrate the formation of his standard for literary criticism called lize 麗則 – poetry consistent with Confucian morals – which highlights and elevates fu poetry by true fu poets rather than rhetoricians. The system of ethical thought established by Yang Xiong appears to have been based on his ideas on the Confucian Classics and discussions of fu poetry. This system became a source of imitation and guidance amongst the other great “fu masters” such as Ban Gu and Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han. Yang Xiong’s views went on to become a major focus of fu poetry studies and the fu style as a post-Wei and Jin legacy. Yang Xiong’s original work in establishing his fu poetry’s ethical system still has insights to yield to us.

<i>Humanity</i> as a Universal of Russian Linguistic Culture

The article introduces the development of the content of Humanity as a universal of the Russian linguistic culture and an important structure-forming component of the national ethical worldview. The research objective was to study the relationship between the language and the ethno-historical consciousness of the Russian people. It was based on historical dictionaries of the Russian language, Old East Slavic and Old Russian language corpora, and modern texts from the national corpus of the Russian language. A cognitive experiment revealed the content of humanity as a cultural universal in the linguistic consciousness of young people. The research traced the dynamics of the concept and identified its invariable axiological component. The universal of humanity was greatly influenced by the Christian (Orthodox) tradition, Western European socio-cultural attitudes, and Soviet ideology. The lexeme entered the Russian language during the first three decades of the XIX century from European languages as a semantic synonym for the love for mankind. Some Old East Slavic and Old Russian texts contained a fairly large number of lexemes that name various practical manifestations of humanity, e.g., blagostynya, blagoserdiye, blagodetel'stvo, blagoutrobiye, miloserdiye, milost', etc. At the stage of lexical development, the word humanity meant the positive quality of educated people, like elsewhere in Western Europe. In Soviet Russia, the phenomenon of humanity began to be understood as disinterested help to an indefinite multitude of the "poor and oppressed", as benevolence towards all "working people", and an uncompromising struggle against "enemies". In the modern Russian linguistic culture and the linguistic consciousness of students, humanity is associated primarily with such axiological dominants as kindness, compassion, love for one's neighbor, and respect and caring attitude towards all living things.

Contextualising Etienne de Villiers' Ethics of Responsibility in the African context

Being a South African systematic theologian, Etienne de Villiers has been involved in discourses regarding public morality with specific interest in the ethics of responsibility. In pursuing this task, his recent scholarship has resulted in proposing a contemporary Christian ethic of responsibility that addresses public moral issues. While this proposal has significant promise for engaging with issues distorting the moral fabric of most African societies, it is considered as lacking some resources for speaking to the African person critically and clearly because of its Western character. Hence, there appears to be an incompatibility with aspects of African moral and social identities in his proposal that require critical consideration of concepts more appealing to the African context. Hence, this article proposes an African (primarily Nigerian) theological engagement with de Villiers' views. The intention is to make de Villiers' work more accessible and, contextual, to the broader African ethical worldview.

Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development

Ample scholarship demonstrates that data-intensive technologies have the capacity to cause serious harm and that their developers are obliged to address ethics in their work. This ethnographic paper tells the story of data scientists attempting to instantiate a carefully considered ethical vision into a data infrastructure while balancing competing priorities, negotiating divergent interests, and wrestling with contrasting values. I use their story to develop the concept of “ethical abduction,” which I characterize as an exemplary process by which actors can intentionally and systematically address ethical issues that arise during their day-to-day actions by making decisions with consideration for a foundational ethical worldview. It entails tacking back and forth between divergent but complementary ways of thinking: between establishing ideals and making decisions given practical constraints; between understanding historical context and anticipating future consequences; between acknowledging structural dependencies and accepting responsibility for moral agency.

LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT AS A MEANS OF INFLUENCING THE ADDRESSEE PREACHING

Statement of the Problem. The paper focuses on evaluative aspects of bishop Vissarion (Nechaev’s) preachings. The author of the paper aims at revealing the methods and ways of influencing the recipient of the preachings by bishop Vassarion. The evaluative functions of Bishop Vissarion’s preaching have never been analyzed in detail in linguistic literature Results. Bishop Vissarion (Nechaev) uses a variety of evaluative language means (evaluative nouns, adverbs, verbs, collocations, adjectives) to influence the reader in terms of forming his or her moral and ethical worldview. The author of the preachings uses common evaluative means (good, badetc.) as well as specific evaluative language means (ethical (moral, kind), aesthectical (beautiful), psychological etc. All these evaluative meanings enable the preacher to reflect his opinion on various aspects of human life. Moreover, the preacher aims at attracting his listeners’ and readers’ attention towards various crucial phenomena of human mental and physical activities and constructing Christian attitude towards them. The preacher uses appraisal and negative evaluation to highlight his views. The extent to which he uses specific and common evaluative means depends on the topics of his preaching. It is worth mentioning that bishop Vissarion uses various epigraphs (fragments from New Testament, epistles of the apostles etc.) which contain evaluative meanings. The latter serve as a starting point for the preacher when he is developing his ruminations and judgements. Conclusion. Bishop Vissarion’s preachings are focusing on crucial aspects of life of a Orthodox Church Christians. It is the evaluative means that provide the preacher with all the instruments for developing and forming Christian worldview in his listeners and readers. He warns them against various harmful mental and physical activities with the help of negative evaluative language means as well as encourages them to opt for goodness with the help of appraisal. The preacher has developed a unique metalanguage that combines philological explanations of the most important words in his preachings with their theological meanings. This approach enables the preacher to express himself to the full extent and to reveal for the reader all the implicit meanings that the evaluative words in his preaching contain.

On the Risks of Ethical Decision-Making from the History of the Political Thought

Introduction: We are interested in the theoretical considerations of the actual pragmatic questions about ethical worldview meaning of understanding of the innovation dealings world, the nature of its conceptual risk dilemmas and problems and sententious thinking in the sphere of political business industry. Our viewpoint is dedicated to the most important aspects of the essence and peculiarities of the social moral standards of innovation approaches in the context of a political solution through methodology of modern mental technology - especially: cognitive methods with gnostic wisdom research and utilitarian creative knowledge and axiological methodology with overestimation ethical values and demonstrating intellectual concepts. Into the framework of the main goal of the research are reviewed the basic theoretical paradigms on the background of ethical worldview analysis (through comparative historical technique of thinking) of the leading-edge conceptual theories of the famous contemporary Russian, American and European thinkers. The purpose of the article is to prove, substantiate and confirm the following thesis. In order for the ethical of timely paroemiac responsibility and political freedom to be able to fulfill its axiological tasks, it is necessary to reach some worldview ideas: ??to create an universal model of moral consciousness and high valuable behavior; overcome mental and sociocultural biases regarding the debatable assessment of the convincingness of events and determine the relevant logical reaction of society not only to a certain risk of eatable technical thinking, but also to uncertainty regarding their intellectual decision in relation to approved ethical, operational, empirical and principled notions, proposals, expression views and suggestions. The results. Scientific conceptual alternatives of optimization of practical and urgent ethical valuable dilemmas are given. The issues of the possibility of formation of a worldview system through practical ethical requirements that standard regulates the reactionary politics of intellectual reality to probabilistic hazards are discussed. The ethical standards of universal prohibitions, the moral responsibility of human nature and the ethics of virtue make a conflict of social and political interests through insurmountable cognitive, discussible, reviewable and discursive difficulties are demonstratively shown. Conclusions. Taking into dominant the essence of the main backgrounds of the existential specific theoretical approaches for worldview methods solving moral political problems is integrated some innovation decisions through valuable considerations. The fundamental ethical concepts of utilitarian thought of historical reminiscences synthesize the possibility problematic circumstances into the logical model of making morally important and useful decisions much easier are analyzed, but through in the valuating pragmatic context needs a main transformation in mental formation of ideological metric and social-political structure. Keywords: ethical worldview decision, political industry, innovation approaches, moral values, mental technologies, risk decision methods, conceptual risk dilemmas.

Ethics in Classical Hindu Philosophy: Provinces of Consequence, Agency, and Value in the Bhagavad Gītā and Other Epic and Śāstric Texts

The idea of a univocal property of ‘goodness’ is not clearly found in classical Sanskrit sources; instead, a common ethical strategy was to clarify the ontological nature of the self or world in such a way that ethical implications naturally flow from the adjustment in our thinking. This article gives a synoptic reading of sources that treat features of ethics—dispositions, agents, causal systems of effect, and even values themselves—as emergent phenomena grounded in complex, shifting, porous configurations. One conclusion of this was that what ‘goodness’ entails varies according to the scope and context of our concern. Firstly, we examine how the Bhagavad Gītā fashions a utilitarianism that assumes no universal intrinsically valuable goal or Good, but aims only to sustain the world as a prerequisite for choice. Recognising that this pushes problems of identifying the Good onto the individual; secondly, we look at accounts of malleable personhood in the Caraka Saṃhitā and Book 12 of the Mahābhārata. Finally, the aesthetic theory of the Nāṭya Śāstra hints at a context-constituted conception of value itself, reminding us that evaluative emotions are themselves complex, curate-able, and can expand beyond egoism to encompass interpersonal concerns. Together these sources show aspects of an ethical worldview for which each case is a nexus in a larger ethical fabric. Each tries to pry us away from our most personal concerns, so we can reach beyond the ego to do what is of value for a wider province of which we are a part.

The Status Quo and Attribution of Wildlife Crimes: A Study of Cases in China From the Perspective of Ecological Economic Ethics.

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has ravaged the world, has led to a rethinking of the relationship between humans and nature and the clichés of the economic-centered model. Thus, the ecological economy has been reviewed, especially from an ethical worldview. This paper uses statistical methods to retrieve and categorize 3,646 wildlife crime cases for analysis and quantitative research. It adopts legal and ethical perspectives to analyze the subject and the subjective, incidence, and sentencing factors of wildlife crimes and uses the ecological economic ethical model to measure wildlife crimes. We argue that the existing judicial system fails to answer the difficulties of the economic ethics of wildlife crimes. It is recommended that ecological and economic ethical awareness be internalized. We suggest calling for comprehensive legislation on wildlife crimes from the perspective of ecological economic ethics to effectively prevent and reduce wildlife crime and eventually promote public health.

Expert Perceptions of Conflicts in African Vulture Conservation: Implications for Overcoming Ethical Decision-Making Dilemmas

Because African vultures are declining due to anthropogenic causes, we linked conservation management with social science by examining the ethical perspectives of individuals responsible for the management of vultures. Understanding these perspectives can help balance scientific knowledge with stakeholder concerns, resulting in more effective decision-making. We interviewed 37 vulture conservationists: 24 in South Africa and Kenya from July–August 2017, and the remaining 13 at a conference in the United States from October–November 2017. We used a Q-Methodology activity in which participants ranked a set of statements (termed Q-sort questions) that we had generated based on pre-study interviews and published literature. This methodology is a social science tool that quantitatively evaluates subjective characteristics such as the values that shape a participant's ethical worldview. A follow-up, semi-structured interview provided a deeper understanding of the participants' statement rankings. Together, both steps addressed individual beliefs and how the participants framed their ethical value structures. We found that the conservationists interviewed, regardless of background, held an overall ethical commitment to duty that guides them as they pursue their conservation management work. The Q-sort analysis suggested three different factors that reflected their expressed views: (1) a biocentric perspective (moral status given to all living things in nature) but with strong negative linkage toward vultures having value for human use (non-anthropocentric intrinsic value), (2) an environmental virtue ethics perspective (moral values are based on a person's character rather than whether specific actions are right or wrong) with consideration given toward vultures having possible value for human use, and (3) an ecocentric perspective (holistic, wherein moral consideration is given to both species and ecosystems) that was neutral with regard to vultures having value for human use (intrinsic value). Insights gained from this study represent an initial step in elucidating stakeholder perspectives and will contribute to the conservation of African vultures.

Towards a descriptive framework of the engineering ethical worldview

ABSTRACT This paper provides a novel theoretical framework of engineering ethics, specifically how engineering professional practitioners make sense of ethics. Multiple regression was applied to 2009 survey data (N=2276, 38% return) of practising engineers, to identify groups of competencies correlated with ethics. These were identified as values within an ethics worldview model. The model has two compartments. One is the development of a professional worldview, whereby professional engineers reconstruct their own values over time, and then seek to embody those in their own life. The other is an awareness of the need for professional judgement in complex decision-making. All the significant variables identified in the survey may be accommodated in this model. While the raw data (ex 2009) were dated, the method and findings help move the field forward by providing new insights into how practising engineers make sense of ethics.

Gender, Law and Society in Islam

The thought that immediately comes to my mind when reading “Gender, Law and Society in Islam” is the sincere attempt made by Professor Anis Ahmad, the author, in recording his decades of experience not just dealing with key issues on gender but as a social scientist and distinguished professor of comparative religion and Islamic studies in Pakistan and across the globe. This valuable experience has been adeptly curated into a framework that is not only thought-provoking but easy to follow. This book contributes to a growing body of literature on gender studies – specifically on a line of inquiry that has formed around certain important contemporary issues in gender from an Islamic perspective. The aim of this book according to the author is an academic effort to elaborate features of an ethical worldview and the new identity it provides to both genders. He insists throughout this book that this identity is not based on the superiority of one gender over another, but rather on “ethical transcendence” whereupon individuals are elevated due to excellence in their good deeds. His search for viable solutions in the light of guidance from the Qur’an is illustrated through his formation of a theoretical framework which assists readers in understanding the Qur’anic worldview brought forth in this book.

The Qur’ān as a Source for Contemporary Islamic Environmental Ethics

Since the surge of interest in environmental problems in the 1960s the world has seen a growing concern for such issues which – from its outset – has been voiced by, among others, religious actors. This paper analyses a selection of contemporary texts on the environment and the current ecological crisis which originated in the Islamic cultural milieu, and addresses the specific problem of their relation to the ethical view of nature in the Qurʼān. To that end, the first section of the study attempts to investigate the ethical view of nature within the Qurʼanic revelation, drawing on the outline of the Qurʼanic ethical world view as well as the methodology for the study of the ethico-religious concepts in the Qurʼān devised by Toshihiko Izutsu. The second part of the study compares this view with the actual interpretation of the Qurʼanic text in contemporary ethical deliberations. The study thereby attempts to show both the differences between the ethical view of nature in the Qurʼān and its contemporary perceptions articulated by the Islamic environmental ethical discourse and the common links which enable Muslim authors to seek answers to the questions of the day in the sacred scripture of Islām.

TOLERANCE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF STUDENT YOUTH

It is impossible to ensure the effectiveness of radical reforms in education related to the country's development prospects without taking into account the worldview and values of an individual, his/her creative self-regulation, training, general spiritual culture, implementation of tolerant behavior and high morals of the younger generation. This determines the relevance of the research problem. The purpose of the study is to clarify and analyze the essence and identify the characteristics of tolerance as a result of spiritual and religious education. To achieve this goal, the following research methods are used: analysis of domestic and foreign philosophical, sociological, psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem (to generalize the theoretical foundations and clarify the essence of tolerance as a result of spiritual and religious education of students; analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization (to substantiate the organizational and pedagogical conditions of spiritual and religious education of youth). Therefore, religious tolerance is an important moral and ethical values, worldview and psychological quality of the individual, which consists in awareness, perception, understanding and respect of various religious beliefs, in the recognition and practical assertion of the right of everyone to have religious or free-thinking beliefs. Religious tolerance involves the use of tolerant behavior as one that ensures security in interpersonal relationships; awareness of tolerance as an effective practice of interpersonal communication; recognition of the individual's right to their own worldview and awareness of moral and legal responsibility for compliance with the principle of religious tolerance; practical construction of tolerant relations. For formation of tolerant interpersonal relations in educational work trainings, role games, individual conversations and consultations on a subject of national customs, religious rites, family traditions are used.

Truth, good and beauty expressed by the heroes of the novels (In the example of “Arrowsmith” by S. Lewis and “The three roots” by P. Kodirov)

The article is dedicated to the typological-comparative analyses of the twentieth century of American and Uzbek realistic novels —“Arrowsmith” and “Three roots”. Comparative literature is specialized in identifying common and unique features of national literatures. There are some similarities in the artistic creation of the novelists like Sinclair Lewis and Pirimkul Kodirov. Lewis was the first American writer who got the Nobel prize for literature. As for P. Kodirov, he made an immense contribution in the development of Uzbek prose. The article analyses and explains the common and diverse features of the two novels. Both writers depict their ideals about a contemporary intellectual man and the ethical worldview of men in science. The conflict between a man and society is given through the fate and the outlook of the characters. Despite the social differences, S. Lewis and P. Kodirov apply similar techniques to put moral qualities against various social ailments. The artistic concept and the art of character creation show common features in the authors’ prose.

Formation of the future teachers-philologists’ aesthetic culture by means of the artistic word (based on the material of the novel «Volyn» by U. Samchuk)

The article deals with the current problem of the formation of the future Ukrainian language and literature teachers’ aesthetic culture based on the novel «Volyn» by Ulas Samchuk. An analysis of the scientific and methodological, psychological and pedagogical literature aimed at revealing the writer’s moral and ethical worldview, who reflected the aesthetic culture by means of artistic words, was carried out. The system-structural analysis and systematization of the work of fiction materials were used to develop the reader’s aesthetic feelings as an organic combination of the observation results over the work characters’ life and behaviour. The research includes the future teachers-philologists’ work on the characterization of the novel’s main characters, who love the land, work on it, and have it as a nursing mother; an attention is drawn to the descriptions of nature, land, sky, countrymen everyday life, love for parents, native land, which are valuable for the reader’s aesthetic development and the basis for aesthetic culture formation. The research demonstrates the work on the main characters portraiture characteristics, in particular of Matvii Dovbenko, who is a hardworking, honest, caring master; Nastia, who is the Matvii’s wife, helping her husband in the running of the household; Volodka, who is a descendant of a Ukrainian farmer, knew the husbandry, helped his parents on the field and at home, observed a nature, successfully learned the world, but refused to «be a lout» and went his own way. The article reveals the work of future teachers-philologists on the descriptions of the Ukrainian nature, which are specific for a spring, summer, autumn, winter, for a morning, afternoon, evening, night, which by its beauty arouses a feeling of love for everything else, a feeling of patriotism and influences the formation of aesthetic culture. The author of the article draws attention to the personification of the native land that was the meaning of the farmer’s life, «the cosmos mystical power». In the author’s belief, the thorough characterization of the characters, rural work, together with portraits and landscapes, as a result, influences the formation of the future teachers’ aesthetic culture.