The article dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Dmytro Vasyliovych Pospiekhov, a philosopher, psychologist, theologian and translator, for the first time in the scientific literature, highlights the milestones of his academic biography and more than 50 years of professor’s tenure at the Department of Philosophy of Kyiv Theological Academy. Based on the analysis of a significant array of printed sources and archival documents, memories of colleagues and students of Dmytro Pospiekhov, the content and specifics of his educational, administrative, editorial and (...) publishing, translation activities at the Academy were revealed for the first time; his important role in the training of professional philosophers, the development of philosophical education and the spread of philosophical knowledge in the East Slavic territories was proven. Paying special attention to Dmytro Pospiekhov’s methods of teaching of philosophical disciplines, the author emphasizes his lecturing methodology, innovative for the theological academies of the time, as well as the heuristic, religious, educational, and moral impact on the students. A special emphasis is placed on Dmytro Pospiekhov’s scientific and editorial activities, his biographical and bibliographic studies, his role in the preservation and studying of the heritage of prominent philosophers and theologians of Kyiv Theological Academy of the 1820s‒1840s: Archpriest Ivan Skvortsov, Archimandrite Theophanes, Sylvestr Hohotskyi. Analyzing Dmytro Pospiekhov’s printed works for the first time, the author reveals the content and significance of his theological and philosophical study of the Book of Wisdom, which emphasizes the direct connection of this Judaic source to the philosophical teachings of Philo of Alexandria, Plato, and the Stoics. The author also draws attention to the significant research potential of Dmytro Pospiekhov’s manuscript heritage, linking it with the study of the prospects of determining his role in the development of psychological science in theological academies and the expansion of modern scientific ideas about the content and specifics of teaching of philosophical disciplines in Kyiv of the second half of the 19th Century. (shrink)

The article contains a critical analysis of the consideration of questions of spirituality with contemporary art. The article touches upon the destiny of humanitaristics in the modern world, the transformation of technological civilization and the role of contemporary art in these processes. The subjects of analysis are the statements of artists, their theoretical constructions. Spirituality does not belong to the list of topics that have remained in the metaphysical past. Spirituality is a synthetic concept, all-encompassing, oriented towards the consideration of (...) human life and processes taking place in the sociocultural sphere from the point of view of their integrity and teleological orientation. Modern and contemporary art considers the creative potential of culture in the construction of new social forms of life. Spirituality is a sign of the maturity of an individual who has transcended his narrow interests and transient values. At the end of the twentieth century, the activity paradigm of understanding spirituality was questioned. It was based on the idea of the identity of consciousness and being. From our point of view, the avant-garde and post-avant-garde made a significant contribution to this rethinking. It is found that in contemporary art there is a task to update the tradition of the avant-garde. Avant-garde is the problematization of the foundations of artistic activity and existence. To know oneself, to move away from social vanity, to learn to live together, to decide to believe - on these «pathos» things focuses artistic expression. The goal of contemporary art is a directed movement beyond the limits of visual experience to the experience of comprehending the truth. In contemporary art spirituality is understood as an anthropological condition for creativity, as a way to restore the destroyed harmony, a sense of universality, interconnectedness. (shrink)