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This article examines the interaction of ideas of Modern Western philosophy, including Polish philosophy, and Ukrainian philosophy in Eastern Galicia in the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. The authors argue that during this period the methodological foundations of Ukrainian philosophy and its history, both in periodization, and the development of philosophical terminology, were intensively elaborated. This is proved by the analyzing works of such Galician thinkers and cultural figures as Klym Hankevych and Ilarion Svientsits’kyi. Both were able to involve Ukrainian philosophy in Central-Eastern philosophical discourse. Such an involvement was fruitful because it contributed to the development of Ukrainian philosophy and its methodology for both historic-philosophical researches and the formation of philosophical terminology.
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According to Ukrainian – “rozum”, in German – die Vernunft (the author’s note).
We do not carry out a comparative analysis of Hankevych’s and Svientsits’kyi’s ideas, because they belong to different generations of philosophers, they did not intersect intellectually, and lived and worked at different times in the history of Ukraine. Such an analysis would be artificial and redundant. We need, rather, to explore the influence of Modern Western philosophy, including Polish philosophy, on the ideas of Hankevych and Svientsits’kyi, and what are the consequences of this influence on Ukrainian philosophy of this period of the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, Ukrainian philosophy does not have an historical continuity; rather we can see many ruptures between the ideas of Ukrainian philosophers in the history of Ukrainian philosophy.
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Karivets, I., Kadykalo, A. Modern Western philosophy and Ukrainian philosophical ideas in Eastern Galicia: the cases of Hankevych and Svientsits’kyi. Stud East Eur Thought 75, 87–98 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09464-3
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