The main ideas of early works of Ivan Mirchuk

Abstract

The article is analyzed the main aspects of the early works  of Ivan Mirchuk- the philosopher in the emigration. It is shown that the very early works of him give the key to understanding the multifacetedness of his personality, pointing to the diversity of interests. It is closer to the main theme of the scientist - Ukrainian spirituality of Slavic philosophy. The  period  of early works of Ivan Mirchuk include the following research: «Ethics and politics» (1923), «History of Greek Ethics» (1923), «Methegeometry and its significance for Kant theory of space: Critical and historical studio» (1925), «General Aesthetics» (1925), «Philosophical foundations of Masaryk ideology» (1925). Philosophical formation of the thinker took place around the study of ethics  problems. For example, the work «Ethics and Politics» is considered the essence of ethics and politics and their relation. The moral principles of the philosophical outlook of the ancient Greeks  and the function of the science of  Greek philosophy are  shown in his research «The History of Greek Ethics». He emphasizes  on the principles of ethics in the practical life of a person. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of Kant's theory of space by Ivan Mirchuk. The problem of space as a phenomenon of thinking of  German thinker is depicted by Ivan Mirchuk in the historical retrospect. The result of the long pedagogical activity in the Ukrainian studio of  art is  the publication of the work «General aesthetics», which coveres the issues of methodological justification of aesthetics, its subject, aesthetic experiences and categories. The studio is the final research of early works by Ivan Mirchuk. It is dedicated to the president of Czechoslovak Republic. It is allowed him to draw parallels between Ukrainian and Czechoslovak philosophy and express the first assumptions about the existence of common foundations of the philosophical ideology of  Slavic peoples.