Sententiae

In Memory of Vitali Terletsky

Editorial Team — 2026-08-30

Volodymyr Shynkaruk as a Personality, Philosopher, Organizer of the Ukrainian Philosophical Community (Round Table Materials)

Mykola Bohun — 2026-08-31

The materials of the round table are devoted to understanding the philosophical achievements of Volodymyr Shynkaruk through the analysis of his personality. All participants of the discussion have been familiar with V. Shynkaruk for many years. Therefore, they base their reflections on his role in Ukrainian philosophy (and especially in the historiography of philosophy) as an author, teacher, and leader on their own memories.

Renaissance “Bridges” of the Neo-Marxist Romanticist

Maryna Stoliar — 2026-08-31

The author describes some aspects of the socio-political atmosphere, everyday life, and mentality of Ukrainians in the second half of the 20th century from a hermeneutic perspective. Based on this description, an interpretation of the axiological dimension of Volodymyr Shynkaruk’s (founder of the Kyiv anthropological school) philosophical work is proposed. Unknown or little-known facts of his biography are interpreted as life foundations that set the direction of his philosophical searches. According to the author, V. Shynkaruk was, in terms of his personal value orientations and way of life, a romantic in the cross-cultural sense of “romanticism” as a universal attitude towards man, society, and nature inherent in different eras. V. Shynkaruk created a romanticized version of neo-Marxism. At the same time, the content of his activity was the revival of Ukrainian philosophy as an integral part of the European discourse.

Kant and the Lie as a Threat to Human Epistemic and Moral Autonomy.

Ivan Ivashchenko — 2026-08-30

Review of Timmermann, J. (2025). Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

‘Primarily a Historical Study’, or How the Context Changes Cultural Studies

Tomasz Kolowca — 2026-08-31

The review of: Brogi, G., Yaremenko, M., Kuzyk, T., Kuczyńska, M., Niedźwiedź, J. (Eds). (2025). Stefan Javors’kyj’s Sermons: 1691-1698. Leiden: Brill; Niedźwiedź, J., Awianowicz, B. (Eds). (2025). Stefan Javors’kyj’s Panegyrics: 1684–1691. Leiden: Brill.

Montaignean Studies in Brazil: Franco-Brazilian Dialogues

Natanailtom de Santana Morador — 2026-08-31

Review of Sképsis: Revista de Filosofia, thematic issue 29 (2024) “Montaigne and Thierry Gontier”.

Intellectual Continuity of Modern French Philosophy.

Kateryna Skrypnyk — 2026-08-31

Review of Sinclair, M., & Whistler, D. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Method as a System. Clemens Timpler and His Program for the Reform of Philosophy

Sergii Secundant — 2026-08-31

This article reconstructs Timpler's concept of the method as the organizing principle of his philosophical project. In contrast to interpretations that view him primarily as a Ramist, Aristotelian, or eclectic, it is argued that his doctrine of method represents an original synthesis based on objective laws of order and rational relations rather than on the natural order of things. The article shows how Templer's concept of method unites logic, metaphysics, and other sciences in a single program for the reform of philosophy based on a fundamentally new view of science, scientific, and social progress, and suggests that it represents an important stage in the emergence of a methodical tradition in German philosophy.

Bertrand Russell’s Logicism versus Immanuel Kant’s Antinomies of Reason

Viktor Kozlovskyi — 2026-08-31

The article argues that the logicism through which Russell approached Kant’s antinomies possessed a distinct character, determined by: a) discovery of paradoxes, and b) theory of types as finding ways to solve them. The paper demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of Russell’s logicism regarding his approach to Kant’s mathematical antinomies, which concern the concepts of the world as a totality of phenomena and nature as a dynamic whole. The strengths of this logicism lie in the precise definitions of infinity and continuity as concepts of «pure arithmetic». Conversely, its weakness is the disregard for Kantian transcendentalism, the very framework within which the antinomies retain their meaning. It is transcendentalism as presupposing the subjective forms of intuition, space and time that renders the antinomies possible as productive ideas of reason. Rejecting these forms eliminates the «semantic field» within which the antinomies maintain their epistemological value.

Contemporary Logical Knowledge and Bacon's Idols of the Mind: Biases or Fallacies?

Olena Shcherbyna — 2026-08-30

What are Bacon's idola mentis in the context of modern logic and theory of argumentation – biases or fallacies? Given the current terminological ambiguity, the authors justify the rejection of a single Ukrainian equivalent for bias and the need for a methodologically rigorous contextual translation (equivalents are “uperedzhennja” and “vykryvlennja”). At the same time, idola tribus and idola pecus are correlated with confirmatory biases as a systematic and unconscious manifestation of the subjective perception of reality. Idola fori and idola theatri generate formal and informal fallacies: idola fori serve as a basis or component in the formation of such fallacies during the construction of an argument, and idola theatri in pragma-dialectics are considered a violation of the rule of relevance (i.e. arguments to authority)

The Reception of the Philosophy of Discourse from the Perspective of Paradigm Change: Ukrainian Context

Anatoliy Yermolenko — 2026-08-30

This article explores the philosophy of discourse as a factor of the communicative turn and the tendency of “rehabilitation of practical reason” from the perspective of a paradigmatic approach to philosophy. The importance of the receptions of the communicative paradigm, the place of translations of Western philosophical ideas in general in the development of domestic philosophy and their role in the revival of philosophy in Ukraine are shown. This article demonstrates that the drivers of the paradigmatic shift in Ukrainian philosophy are not only linked to the main trends of world philosophy, but are also organically connected with national traditions. These traditions are Hryhoriy Skovoroda’s Socratic dialogue and Oleksandr Potebnia’s philosophy of language. They were further developed in the analytical philosophy-inspired researches of Myroslav Popovych and Vasyl Lisovy, as well as in contemporary research at the Institute of Philosophy in the fields of pragmatism, communicative philosophy, and discourse ethics. The significance of the concept of dialogue as an organic component of the national philosophical culture and deliberative practices of Ukrainian society is noted.

The Textual History of Leviathan: The English Text and the Limits of Textual Consensus

Oleksiy Panych — 2026-08-30

The article is devoted to the textual foundations of a new Ukrainian translation of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. It is shown that neither of the two existing Ukrainian translations rests on an adequate textual basis: the first reproduces only the English version of 1651 in R. Tuck’s edition, while the second is a retranslation of the Russian translation of 1991, as demonstrated by a comparison of several passages. The paper analyses the controversy between G. A. J. Rogers and K. Schuhmann, on the one hand, and N. Malcolm, on the other hand, over the relation between the three versions of the English text – Head, Bear and 25 Ornaments – and establishes the limits of the textual consensus that must be taken into account in preparing a scholarly Ukrainian translation. A preliminary review is also given of the two editions that take the Latin text into account, those of E. Curley and N. Malcolm.

Philosophical Translation as a Manifestation of Philosophical Culture

Oleg Khoma — 2026-08-31

This article describes the theoretical principles of analyzing translations as manifestations of philosophical culture. Through textual analysis, the authors applies these principles to the 1920s manuscript of the Ukrainian translation of the work attributed to Helvetius, “The True Meaning of the System of Nature” (1774). The analysis reveals the key features of the philosophical culture embodied in this translation: the translator and editors' lack of formal philosophical training alongside their strong education in the humanities; their predominant orientation towards literary translation standards; and relatively high editorial rigor combined with a lack of opportunities for its implementation. Finally, the study proves that these features were also inherent in the Ukrainian culture of philosophical translation at the turn of the 1970s, marked by lower standards compared to the 1920s.

What Should the National Philosophical Tradition Convey?

Elvira Chukhrai — 2026-08-31

This paper demonstrates that the contemporary Ukrainian debate regarding the national philosophical tradition has exhausted its potential in the aspect of “unity versus multiplicity”. Fundamental disagreements between the sides are absent, both in terms of tradition as a “single discourse” and regarding the multiplicity of philosophical phenomena. Since both sides define “tradition” differently, they do not genuinely contradict one another. However, this debate offers a highly fruitful prospect concerning the search for generalising terms to designate multi-level subjects of “Ukrainian-language philosophising”, or philosophising in any other languages. Furthermore, the paper establishes that the successful development of the “local contexts of global philosophies” project is driven by the productive potential of the divergences that generated the aforementioned debate.

Letters of Ivan Mirchuk to Fr. Josaphat Skruten OSBM

Volodymyr Pylypovych — 2026-08-30

The first publication of eight letters from Ivan Mirchuk to Father Josaphat Skruten, editor-in-chief of the journal “Analecta OSBM”. The letters had been sending in 1931–1938. Now they are kept in the collections of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv.