Chinese Studies in Ukrainian Philosophy of the Soviet Period

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the authors’ study of the perception of Ancient Chinese philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period in the second half of the 20th century. The study is based on a unique source: a monograph by two authoritative and influential Soviet philosophers, Volodymyr Dmytrychenko and Volodymyr Shynkaruk, which was published in Ukrainian in 1958. The authors described the way of perception of Ancient Chinese philosophy, its ideological principles, main problems and key personalities in the Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period, and systematically presented them. The paper presents the authors’ conclusions about the leading theoretical positions and methodology of the history of philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophical culture of the Soviet period. The authors concluded that the peculiarity of the development of studies in the history of philosophy in Ukraine in the Soviet era is a departure from Hegel’s theory of the history of philosophy, the main theoretical and methodological shortcoming of which is “Eurocentrism”. This circumstance allows us to assert a critical rethinking of Hegel’s theory of the history of philosophy in the Ukrainian philosophical culture of the Soviet period of the second half of the 20th century. Also, in this paper, the authors prove the point of view that a comparative approach and reception studies are effective methods of studying the history of Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period.

Materialistic Traditions in Chinese Philosophy and Their Significance on the Establishment of Marxism in China

“…Instead, they determined and selected methodological approaches in the study of Chinese philosophy, tried to find their metaphilosophical understanding, carried out a philosophical understanding of the entire history of Chinese thought from ancient times to modern times in all its manifestations [17]; studied the peculiarities of cultures, literature, and philosophy of different civilizations, looking for similar and distinctive features inherent in certain societies, discovered an important principle that significantly distinguishes "non-Western" cultures and manifests itself in ethnocentrism and the harmonization of the relationship between man and nature (feng shui), try to give an answer on the question of whether the practice of feng shui is a science or a religion [18; 20]; the common and different aspects of Chinese and Soviet Marxism are investigated [21]; conduct a study of the way ancient Chinese philosophy is perceived in Ukrainian philosophy, which made it possible to gain new knowledge about the philosophical culture of China [19].…”

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“…An important factor affecting people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Ukraine in the progress of the Belt and Road Initiative construction is the difference in cultural traditions between the two sides (Rudenko & Liashenko, 2020). First, China has its own ancient civilisation, arming itself with Confucianism and believing in loyalty, benevolence, righteousness and propriety; Central and Eastern Europe is a branch of Western civilisation, which has its own religious beliefs in the way of thinking different from Chinese culture.…”

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“…The methods of historical-philosophical reconstruction and the historicalcomparative method, in turn, formed the basis of this study (Rudenko & Yosypenko, 2018). Research methods have been described in more detail in previous publications (Rudenko & Liashenko, 2020).…”