THE WORLD OF GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES-SYMBOLS BY HRYHORII SKOVORODA: MARINISTICS

Abstract

The article examines the issue of the penetration of marinistic names into the stylistic field of Hryhorii Skovoroda’s works. The attitude of the philosopher to science, to the spread of new knowledge is analyzed. His assessment of the importance of knowledge of geography against the background of the fundamental principle of the thinker’s philosophical system – self-knowledge is traced. Skovoroda viewed and evaluated his own life as a journey. Travels along the roads of Ukraine and Europe became an important factor in his formation as a personality, influenced the formation of his worldview and development of his own system of understanding the meaning of being. It was established that the philosopher’s knowledge of the Earth as a geographical object was at a high level. It is noted that he skillfully inscribed various countries, cities, seas, mountains, and deserts into his own cultural and historical map of the world. Skovoroda was always open to knowledge, in particular, he was interested in geographical discoveries, he had his own opinion about the leadership of Europeans in this sphere. Although the philosopher never crossed the sea, the images of the sea, shore, storm, ship, cozy harbors and islands were among his most favorite. It has been established that Skovoroda mentions five seas in his works. These References are contained in poems, philosophical dialogues and treatises, epistolary. The article analyzes each quote with marine names from various aspects. For the deployment of the thinker’s philosophical ideas, seas were important not only and not so much as geographical names, but as symbols carrying certain meanings. As a part of the earthly world, as a component of immortal nature, the Christian philosopher-theologian Skovoroda purposefully inscribes the seas into the higher world for him – the eternal world of God.