FEATURES OF INTERPRETATION OF SOCIETY IN UKRAINIAN PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Modern social and educational situations are characterized with growing interest towards the world outlook of the functioning of the society and state. In particular, it is the interest towards the points of the basis of social existence, driving force of social transformations, the mechanism of interrelation between the society and the state. As a result, this demands the search for effective methodology of the Ukrainian society study and the Ukrainians’ affirmation among world nations. The article is devoted to the research of peculiarities of the interpretation of the society in Ukrainian philosophical idea. The author applies existential and humanistic methodology, which defines relative entirety of any national philosophy, proximity of social and philosophical views and conceptions towards the Ukrainians’ outlook mentality and predicts the reproduction of social and philosophical thematics in the context of national culture. The analysis of world outlook and philosophical basis of understanding the society in Ukraine allowed the author to state that, firstly, about the expediency of the interpretation of the society as the part of the system of social interactions which provides the overcoming of individual one-sidedness. Secondly, to demonstrate that the absence of statehood of Ukrainian existence corrected the interpretation of the society. In the first place, it became apparent in the interpretation of the society as historical and cultural process of the stay and life of people under conditions of certainly defined territorial world, which gains forms of household, public, cultural and educational activity. It means that the interpretation of the society in Ukrainian philosophy is accomplished on the basis of ethnocentrism which was added with the idea of recognition of the equality and interaction of national cultures. It is grounded that the analysis of philosophical and methodological questions of functioning of the Ukrainian society will promote the forming of effective strategies of social cognition and will give the possibilities to detach and authentically identify social and cultural elements of common existence of Ukrainians on the whole.