Immanuel Kant in Philosophical Culture of Ukraine

Culture of UkraineThe main cultural event of a global scale, which marks the year 2024, is Immanuel Kant's 300 th Anniversary.Despite the Russian-Ukrainian war and the everyday difficulties and restrictions associated with it, Ukraine did not remain aloof from this event.Given the number of scientific events and publications dedicated to Kant's Anniversary, 2024 has become a real Kant's Year of Ukrainian humanities.Of course, the centers of philosophical science and education -the Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the NAS of Ukraine, the philosophy departments of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Kant Society in Ukraine, etc.,showed particular activity.This is not surprising -after all, we are talking about the 300 th Anniversary of one of the key figures in world philosophy and at the same time one of those German thinkers whose work became a powerful stimulus for the development of academic philosophy in Ukraine.The first Ukrainians to become acquainted with Kant's ideas were students of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, who continued their education at the University of Knigsberg, where they had the opportunity to listen to Kant's lectures on philosophy, logic, physics, mathematics, geography, anthropology, history, etc.It is known, for example, that a former student of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ivan Khmelnytskyi (1742-1794), one of the descendants of the famous Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, not only studied from Kant, but also in April 1767 defended in his presence the Dissertatio philosophica, de servitute minus tolerenda ob rationes et ex jure naturae gentium allatas.During Kant's lifetime, it was Ukrainians who became the first translators of his works in Eastern Europe: in 1803 in the city of Mykolaiv, a graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Yakiv Ruban ( 1760-1806) published a Russian translation of Kant's work Grundlegungzur Metafhysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals], 1 and the following year 1804, the son of a Ukrainian Cossack, a native of the city of Kharkov, future academician Roman Tsebrikov (1763-1817) published in St. Petersburg a treatise translated into Russian, Beobachtungen ber das Gefhl des Schnen und Erhabenen [Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime]. 2