Philosopher Skovoroda Biography

Grigory Skovoroda - Grigory Savvich Skovoroda - Ukrainian philosopher, mystic, poet. The worldview of the pan was influenced by the work of Feofan Prokopovich and Lomonosov. Inherited the heliocentric teaching of Copernicus. All his life was dedicated to Gregory Skovoroda to search and gain the light of the spirit, the search for truth. A native of a poor family, he became one of the educated people of his time, a thinker, a writer, a teacher and a musician, an expert on antiquity and the Middle Ages.

He dressed decent, but simply; food consisting of potions, fruits and dairy seasonings; He used the Wive of the Sun, Meat and Pisces did not eat not by superstition, but by his inner location. For sleep, he separated from the time of his no more than four hours a day; I got up to dawn and when the weather allowed, I always walked out of town to walk into clean air and in the gardens.

In the church, he voluntarily went to Kriclos and sang wonderful, pleasant. The Kyiv Academy was the first higher educational institution in Ukraine. Its founder, Petro Grave in the year, united a fraternal school with the school of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra into a single Kiev-Mogilyansk collegium, which has acquired the status of the academy since the year. Petro Grave provided the academic library with the best publications, literature of various religious and philosophical movements, invited the best professors from Europe.

The Academy has become the center of the spiritual life of Ukraine, which was not inferior in the level of teaching by the higher educational institutions of Europe of that time. Her students could be found in the largest university centers - Sorbonne and Bologna, Krakow and Prague, Heidelberg and Galle. The academy managed to create the intellectual atmosphere in which the classical humanitarian sciences found their development.

In the first four classes, an analogy, infim, grammar and syntaxim were taught. Successfully transferred to the fifth grade became students and for eight years studied piics, rhetoric, engaged in philosophy, theology. In general, training at the academy lasted 12 years. In addition to the mandatory disciplines, the pan mastered German and Polish, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, knew perfectly.

The frying pan at the Academy lasted for almost 20 years. From time to time, he was distracted from his studies: he was also a singer of the imperial chapel in St. Petersburg, traveled around Europe, taught at the Pereyaslav Collegium, but always returned to his Alma Mater. It was here that the pan met his future student - Mikhail Kovalinsky. The young man did not immediately accept his teacher, he did not dare to think that he was worthy of his friendship, although with his passion, surprise and respect he treated his lifestyle and philosophical ideas.

Only a wonderful vision that Kovalinsky had convinced him of the need to submit to fate. He took a meeting with the pan not as a rational life fact, but as predetermination. The pan directed Kovalinsky in his philosophical search, shared his thoughts, taught philosophy as practical morality, wrote letters filled with participation. Friendship was true happiness for the philosopher, and in the student he saw his continuation.

But the world, which did not catch the pan, took the most valuable for the teacher - his most popular student. Touching upon mysticism in the life of the philosopher, one cannot help but recall the fact of the mystical experience described by Kovalinsky from the memoirs of the pan, which happened to him at 48 years of life. It was a year. Seeing Istin’s disornse for his vacation, he went to Kyiv to his friends to ask him to be sent to Ukraine.

They hold: he discourages that he urgently orders him to leave Kyiv. He went between Sim to the hem, the lower city in Kyiv, came to the mountain, from where they went to the hem, suddenly, stopping, he felt such a strong smell of dead corpses that he could not transfer and that hour he turned home. The spirit convincingly drove him out of the city and he hit the road the next day.

When the pan found out about this, he was seized by an experience that laid a mark on the future life of the philosopher.

He was offered high worldly posts and a spiritual career. But he remained faithful to his principles, defended his personal freedom and individuality, not succumbing to the temptations of the world. Time to stick to the harbor, we know your talents. Holy Lavra will accept you, like your mother, you will be a pillar of the church and the decoration of the monastery. Ah, the Monk!

I chose this role, took and satisfied. This was the last place of work of the scientist and teacher. Since then, he becomes a wandering philosopher, without classes giving livelihood. Teaching in Kharkov was the last attempt to go on an ordinary road, and at the same time, the impetus, thanks to which fast and final crystallization began in a saturated solution of perennial searches.

In his life, an almost thirty -year travel period begins, ascetic renunciation of all the temptations of worldly life.Refusing to get a job in life, the pan finally transfers his life into internal dimensions, becomes a wanderer - a migratory bird. The staff of the traveler is a deep symbol of his spirit. He took the Bible, a flute and went further and further. A gray retinue, boots in reserve and several handle of work - this is what all his property consisted of.

Unceasing wanderings became the only matter of his life, an expression of his religiosity. It has become a voluntary feat of renunciation of those ordinary living conditions that are an obstacle to the inner life of the spirit. To be a wanderer, to feel like a wanderer in this world and look at everything around, as a random passer -by looks is to remain indifferent to everything that meets on the way, to know that how all this appeared for a moment, so all through a moment will disappear, make sure that there is nothing eternal and constant in the world, that everything flows and disappears.

He always needs to go and go to unknown Dali, remembering the last goal, about the father of the house, where the rest of the eternal Saturday awaits the tired traveler! The wanderer does not know any attachments, for him there is nothing here, but everything there, on the other side, in the future. Planting physically, the pan metaphysically enters itself, returns to its house and finds its inner essence.

Outside the body, a philosopher would like to live above the body, he would like to live a transcendental life, not to have any property, even his body. Because the one who oppresses the weight of transient things cannot be free and spiritual. It was the main thing for him, and not to have, because the true perfection of a person is not what he has, but in what he is.

The pan at dawn died on Sunday on November 9 in the village of Ivanovka in the estate of a familiar landowner. What were his philosophy, his inner world, his path of searching for truth? His philosophical teaching was created under the influence of many sources and therefore is quite complex. Most often, the pan is addressed in its thoughts to the statements of representatives of such schools as Pythagoreans, Kinniks, Kirenaiki, Stoics, skeptics.

In the views on the problems of morality and ethics, the authorities for the pan are Pythagoras, Diogenes, Socrates, and its philosophical system itself was formed under the influence of Plato and Neoplatonists. The pan was also widely used by the ideas of the domestic enlighteners of S. Polotsky, F. Prokopovich, P. Grail, D. Tuptala and folk art: myths, fairy tales, proverbs. In his writings, Gregory Skovoroda taught that there are three worlds: one big and two small.

The big world is the universe - a macrocosm, consisting of many worlds. The second is a microcosm - a world or a person. And the third is the world of symbols - or the Bible. The ideas gleaned by a pan from the Bible were present in his entire philosophical system. In the symbolic world of the Bible, figures of all heavenly, earthly and underground objects are collected, which lead a human thought to the concept of eternal.

Each of these three worlds has two natures: material - visible - disparate, transient - and invisible - eternal, single, spiritual. The search for happiness inherent in all people led the pan to the understanding that the real bliss of a person is not in the pursuit of the transient benefits of the external world, but in knowing himself, the acquisition of divine wisdom and in a painted work.

It is work to their liking that harmonizes the relationship of a person with the universe. The visible nature is called the creature, and the invisible is God. There are near. In the Serp and in your shower. It is the beginning and end of the BCC of the Books of Prophetic; From her, through her and for her everything is written in them. To this reason, different ses received names.

Yes, and the edge of that, the ancients of the royal called everything that was revered by the supreme and the main thing. It is an entry union between God and the man. It is like a beautiful garden, quiet voters, sweet -watering tsvtov and Uthi executed, in which the tree of imperishable lives brings. Is this a wonderful temple of the wise god MAR? The essence of the Myra is.

She makes it out of sight by the frequency, it is not worth it and the VID is transformed into different forms, but never excommunicates from her living tree. Skovoroda Gorsky V.