Philosophy and statehood: Ukrainian variations

Abstract

The article examines the philosophical and religious foundations of the historical forms of the Ukrainian state: Ukraine-Rus’, Cossack Hetmanate, UРR-Hetmanate and modern Ukraine. The authors highlights the position regarding the influence of philosophical and religious doctrines on the formation of variations of Ukrainian statehood.
They indicate that the spiritual basis of the formation and legitimization of Rus’ (which later in later historiography began to be called Kyiv Rus’) as a subject of the European political space was established on the basis of Kyiv-Rus’ Lyubomudriye. Lyubomudriye is seen as a religious philosophy, a branch of late Eastern Patristics, which legitimized the symphony between the State and the Church. The authors analyze the views expressed in the sermons and teachings of Metropolitans of Kyiv Hilarion, Klyment Smolyatich, Kyrylo Bishop Turovsky and others, in which the idea of Kyiv Rus’ independence as a Christian state is substantiated.