SOCIO-CULTURAL SENSES AND AXIOLOGICAL DOMINANTS OF THE HRIHORY SKOVORODA’S LANGUAGE CREATION

Natalia MEKН,
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Screen and Stage Department Arts and Cultural Studies,
Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology named after M.T. Rylskoho National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
e-mail: mno_logos@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5846-505X

Heading: FROM HISTORY OF CULTURE AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE: TO THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF HRIHORY SKOVORODA’S THE BIRTH
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The proposed research is an attempt to understand the language creation of H. Skovoroda as a fragment of the national cultural strategy in the conditions of informational aggression. This question acquires special importance in the process of restoration of Ukraine, awareness of its unique and peculiar place in world history, culture, in the genesis of human civilization as a whole. After all, Ukraine has something to offer other peoples and countries at the modern time. Motives and values that drive the Ukrainian people in an indomitable confrontation with the enemy, courage, freedom and will are engrained in our genetic memory. Sociocultural meanings and axiological dominants that illustrate the spiritual roots of Ukrainianness – all this is demonstrated to us by Hryhoriy Skovoroda’s linguistic knowledge.
Knowing and sharing the views of recognized pillars of Ukrainian culture is always a guarantee of moral growth and self-improvement. In the conditions of the confrontation of the Ukrainian people with an existential threat, based on which the denial of all its historical, socio-cultural and even spiritual dominants is artificially laid and spread, the affirmation of such approaches, views and instructions is the only way to preserve the people and the state.
The example of a FREE PERSON with its dominant worldview and values should become for Ukrainians a signpost to their FREEDOM in all its manifestations: from spiritual freedom to physical and material freedom, to the freedom to act and create one’s future.
Key words: freedom, culture, value dominants, Skovoroda’s eloquence.

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