Sententiae

The Thing: Why I'm an Editor. Part IІІ

Svitlana Ivashchenko, Illia Davidenko, Vlada Anuchina, Daria Popil — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Interview of Illia Davidenko, Vlada Anuchina and Daria Popil with Svitlana Ivashchenko.

I Had the Good Fortune to Communicate with Giants of the Spirit. Part III

Leonid Finberg, Vlada Davidenko, Ryenat Shvets, Sofia Bryl — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Interview of Vlada Davidenko, Ryenat Shvets, Sofia Bryl with Leonid Finberg.

A Seminar on Academic Science and the Cultural Process in the Ukrainian SSR / USSR

Herman Vykhor, Dariia Siedova — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Description of the event held within the framework of the Seminarium Historico-Philosophicum project, which took place on September 28, 2025.

The Perception of the Work and Figure of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi in the Ukrainian SSR (1920s–1930s)

Illia Davidenko — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Based on archival documents and rare publications, the author reconstructs in detail for the first time the reception of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi in the academic philosophy of the Ukrainian SSR. The aforementioned reception took place in two directions: 1) a view of Chyzhevskyi in the context of the polemics of Ukrainian Soviet philosophers with contemporary European Hegelianism and neo-Hegelianism; 2) an analysis of Chyzhevsky’s historical and philosophical concept. The author argues that this reception is a) evidence of the mutual influence of the diasporic and Soviet traditions of Ukrainian philosophy of the 20th century, which cannot be ignored; b) an important “micro-mirror” of the consideration of the academic philosophy of the Ukrainian SSR itself, which reflects the key discussions inherent in it.

Sermon by Varlaam Yasinsky “The Mystery is Revealed Now and the Son of God is Born as a Son of Man”

Larysa Dovga, Oksana Sukhovii — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The first publication of the third sermon by Varlaam Yasinsky on Christmas. From the standpoint of the history of philosophy it is interesting because of the Author's attempt to provide a philosophical interpretation of the phenomenon of the Incarnation in a way that is understandable not only to high-level intellectuals, but also to ordinary believers.

Klymentiy Hankevych as a Researcher of the History of Philosophy Among the Slavs. Biobibliographic Review

Andrii Kadykalo — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The author offers the first detailed biobibliographic description dedicated to Klymentiy Hankevich (1842–1925), a little-known Ukrainian researcher of the history of philosophy among the Slavs. Based on Hankevich's little-known text, his manuscripts, and publications about him, the individual stages of his academic life and the chronology of his research on the history of Slavic philosophy have been reconstructed. Hankevych’s explorations were the first attempts to understand the place of the philosophy of the Slavic peoples in the development of European philosophy. Based on a detailed analysis of Hankiewicz's research intentions and their implementation, as well as on reviews and responses of Polish, Czech, and Russian historians of philosophy of the last quarter of the 19th century, the author concludes that Hankiewicz's works were authoritative for a number of European (primarily Slavic) researchers of the period in question. Hankiewicz was well acquainted with the main trends in 19th-century philosophy among Poles, Czechs, and other Slavic peoples, and his research was based on solid factual material. His research was based on factual material. This assessment of Hankevich's work contrasts sharply with the corresponding assessments of D. Chyzhevsky and V. Zaikyn.

Archaeographic Factor in the Research of Hryhoriy Skovorodaʼs Works

Taras Kononenko, Yana Kupchik — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The authors found that each of the six academic complete collections of Skovoroda's works positions itself as having eliminated the significant shortcomings of previous editions. At the same time, the number of stated shortcomings only increased from edition to edition. According to the authors' hypothesis, the very intention to create a complete academic collection of works on a common methodological basis contains an immanent flaw, which gives rise to the aforementioned accumulation of shortcomings. Recognizing the important historical significance of Skovoroda's collections, the authors of the article believe that it is now necessary to begin researching individual manuscript works of Skovoroda as independent artifacts not only of the intellectual, but also of the artistic culture of Ukraine. In this context, the authors propose to link the methods of archaeography of sources with the use of the concept of “physical object.ˮ

Materials for the bibliography of mentions of Ukrainian émigré philoso-phers in the philosophical periodicals of the Ukrainian SSR (1919–1991)

Kateryna Levchuk, Kateryna Skrypnyk — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The first commented bibliography of publications in Ukrainian Soviet philosophical periodicals (1919–1991) that mention Ukrainian émigré philosophers.

Letters by Ivan Mirchuk to Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky

Volodymyr Pylypovych — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The first annotated publication of the selected letters by Ivan Mirchuk to Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, which are part of the correspondence of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin with Metropolitan Andrey.

The Early Modern Philosophical “Diploma” by Muhammad al-Kafawi: Text, Translation from Arabic, and Commentary

Mykhaylo Yakubovych — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0200

The first annotated edition of the Arabic text and Ukrainian translation of the “permission” (ijaza) to teach theological disciplines related to Avicennaism (mid-18th century). This permission was awarded by a scholar of Crimean origin, Muhammad al-Kafawi, to Khalil al-Akkirmani, a native of Akkerman (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi). The document is reconstructed on the basis of a newly discovered manuscript from Leiden University Library (The Netherlands). Based on the permission, it is argued that the intellectual circles of the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire at that time were involved in the systematic study and reproduction of the philosophical tradition, namely the so-called “rational sciences.”