Philosophy - the phenomenon of human. She explores the, what was in the past and is nowadays the core of human values, samosval, spiritual achievements.

Ukrainian philosophy in real existence appears to be part of the global philosophical process, more precisely - development of European philosophy: Ukrainian philosophy originates in the gradual movement of their own culture (as, for example, in Greece or China), and borrowed from Byzantium is already in a very developed state. And even though it acquires certain cultural traits and colors, today there are doubts about the reality of such a phenomenon, as Ukrainian philosophy.

Another one of the first researchers of Ukrainian philosophy, former rector of the Free Ukrainian University in Prague D. Chizhevsky was talking about, that the Ukrainian philosophy has yet to prove himself and that, possible, to write her story too early. He believed, the Foundation for this assessment of the real state of the Ukrainian philosophical thought is the fact, there is no such philosophical ideas, systems or theories, created by Ukrainian philosophers, that would have been recognized, adoption and spread as a phenomenon of world culture. And although there are some exceptions (for example, philosophy G. The pan, some ideas About. Potebnja and. Vernadsky), in General, this statement is hard to disagree.

 But, on the other hand, it is impossible not to draw attention to the fact, in civilized history of Ukraine (signs of civilization, see. in the subject 16) there are no such frames, which would not present a philosophy or philosophical thought. That is, in General, the philosophy accompanies the entire civilized history of Ukraine. From this we can draw a justified conclusion about, Ukrainian philosophy - this phenomenon is handled internal in the attitude to Ukrainian culture, that is, she expressed, concentrated, that lead to a level of understanding of some important features of the national character and world Outlook of the Ukrainians. In our time, the question of national identity, national identity has acquired a special significance so, what we are talking about the conscious choice of the future historical destiny of the people.

Therefore, the question of Ukrainian national character has its justification both in terms of awareness of features of Ukrainian philosophy, and in terms of their modern sound. Based on numerous studies and interpretation, you can argue about the existence of such basic features of Ukrainian national character: 

• emotionality,

• aestheticism,

• sentimentality,

• mental mobility,

• the veneration of individual freedom,

• religiosity and a kind of cult of the Earth, and

• the feeling of closeness with nature.

The above-mentioned D. Chizhevsky considers, these traits have both positive, and negative manifestations.

• Emotionality and sensitivity to positive identification ^appear as condolences, of interest in the people and Affairs, however, in the negative manifestation, they lead to a certain neglect of detailed, rational justification, consecutive interpretation situations, deployed and producing detailed programmes of action.

• Sentimental aestheticism and positively manifest itself as a love of beauty in all its manifestations, as the desire to beautify life, but, at the same time, they lead to a certain rise, the propensity for pomp and decorativeness; the last moment D. Chizhevsky describes as “a tendency to seem more, than to be actually”.

• Mental mobility of Ukrainians leads to their ability to quickly adapt to different life situations, but it can also be manifested in a certain mental instability, the tendency to mental panchavarna.

• The veneration of individual freedom, as you know, historically manifested itself in the unwillingness of Ukrainians to obey the violence, foreign domination, however, it is this trait manifests itself negatively - in the form of discord, inconsistencies, the inability of the o’novati force to solve complex problems.

• Ukrainian religion was marked even observed in the history of the infamous Stalin-era concentration camps; it helped to relive the tragic collision of Soviet times. But this religion also remains to some extent stand’asinou with dekorativizma, it is mainly theoretically deepens, theologically not detailed.

• The earth and nature with love ‘s also not always takes on the character consciously implemented the principle, therefore along with the thorough care of the Earth and nature can meet in Ukraine also on the facts of destruction of forests (for profit), the pollution of rivers, etc.

I should say, the reality of the phenomenon of national character is recognized, but not all culturologists and sociologists: some believe, what can you find evidence of the existence of large differences between individuals within the same nation (or ethnicity), than between representatives of different ethnic groups. However, it is hardly to reject (not be taken into account) leading trends in the types of cal-Ki, preferences, customs and value orientations of representatives of different Nations, peoples, ethnic groups, cultures. Just should be taken into account, this is exactly what the leading trends, and not real property, be sure to’must be inherent in each individual member of this people.

As a rule, conventionally, there are the core of the nation (or ethnicity) - the so-called national elite, and “layers”, located around this nucleus:

• the first layer - those representatives of the nation, mainly “fit ” the major trends in national manifestations;

• the second layer - those people, that rather such traits, they are opposed by General or leading national trends.

However, you should understand, that is quite a normal phenomenon, which is observed in real life of any human community: folk, national life - it's colorful, instead of the monotonous and repetitive phenomenon, normal and therefore should also be considered, people, which belong to the same nation, there are different. It is necessary not to separate someone from the people or the state, but to be able to dialogue, the conversation taking into account the different positions between people. As evidenced by our present, towards the creation of a nation state is a given for many people is hard enough; it is much easier to measure all “under him” or require, the people were so, “as all”.

These national characteristics and peculiarities of the attitude of Ukrainians is reflected in certain features of Ukrainian philosophy.

• it appears to be mainly an internal phenomenon of the Ukrainian culture

• Ukrainian philosophy has never shown a propensity for abstract and rational system builds

• she has always shown a penchant for moral attitudes and life teachings

• mainly positive attitude to religion, to uphold the highest spiritual values

• enough has been rotated in the direction of historical and historiosophical conceptions of the features of fate of the Ukrainian people, and the glories of anstva overall

• quite strongly integrated into the literature, social and political thought, cultural and historical projects and considerations

Thus, outlined the originality of the Ukrainian philosophy leads to, instead of the term “Ukrainian philosophy” quite often the term “Ukrainian philosophical thought” - that's why, she often appeared as an organic part of a larger cultural-historical process.