Borysova T. Cultural and ontological foundations for "hope" (historical and philosophical analysis).

The object is the constitutive aspects of "hope" in historical-philosophical reflexion from antiquity till now. The aims are to analyze and critically interpreting of metaphysical reflexion of "hope" and to define its cultural - anthropological, ontological and historical-philosophical role. The methods are system, historical-comparative, structural, hermeneutic, phenomenological, coincidence of historical and logical. For the first time in the native philosophy the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the problem "hope" at the context of ontognoseological, cultural and axiological, existential measurings is done. Constructive aspects of the problem "hope" through the construction of the contradiction hope-good and hope-evil in the philosophical reflexion of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, apostle Pavel, Augustinus Sanctus, Ioan Zlatoust, P.Descartes, B. Pascal, A. Camus and G. Marcel are covered. Delimitation of the given problem on the three main levels is done: symbol of hope, image of hope, phenomenon of hope. In the investigation the analysis of the basic problems of Christian anthropology and ontology is made, existential and axiological aspects of the issues of hope and despair are found. Sphere of usage is a training courses.