RECEPTION OF ARTISTIC ECOETHICS IN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE OF THE END OF XIX - XX CENTURIES

Abstract

The article presents a study of the reception of artistic ecoethics as a component of environmental issues in the Ukrainian literature of the late XIX – mid XX century. Based on the analysis of works on philosophy and ethics, ecoethics is outlined as a phenomenon of moral theory and scientifically sound field of knowledge with appropriate principles applied in practice, will contribute to the holistic formation of ecological thinking, ecological consciousness and ecological culture, system of ecological values as certain established stereotypes and behavior. Ecological knowledge is highlighted, which is a mental feature of the Ukrainian people and can be traced at the levels of worldview, practical experience, mythological ideas, folk customs, rituals, beliefs. Ecological thinking, ecological consciousness and ecological culture are characterized as consequences of ecological knowledge, which become priority characteristics of public consciousness. On the example of works of Ukrainian literature of the turn of the centuries and the middle of the XX century, in particular Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky, Lesya Ukrainka, Olga Kobylyanska, Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Oles Honchar, different stages of realization of artistic ecoethics are marked. Thus, in the story “Fatamorgana” by M. Kotsyubynsky through the prism of the image of Melanka traced the inner need of man to be as close as possible to the earth, ie the desired approach to its eco-ideal, in the story “Tini Zabutykh Predkiv” highlights the sacred connection between man and nature as the defining essence of human affirmation, Lesya Ukrainkas fairy play “Lisova Pisnia” outlines the ethics of wildlife, which is manifested on the principle of calendar time, Olga Kobylyanska's short story “Bytva” analyzes the caution of a society that is experiencing global ecological cataclysms in its pursuit of material values, O. Dovzhenk