Yarmola A. Reception of Plato's demiurgic principle in religious-philosophic views of Kyiv Rus thinks.

The paper is devoted to investigating influence of Plato's demiurgic principle on the views of Kyiv Rus thinks. On the basis of religious mythological and philosophic consciousness analysis the author makes a conclusion about the unity of historic-cultural process of forming the demiurgic ideas and the relation between the domestic philosophic tradition and the brightest philosophic systems of medieval Eastern Christian ideas. The courses of demiurgic evolution in pre-Socrates philosophic tradition and its influence on Plato system of views are highlighted in the investigation. On the basis of the analysis of Plato dialogues the idea of consequent development and groundation of demiurgic ideas as a creative power in different spheres of philosophic and philosophic-religious knowledge is done. Gnoseologic, social-politic, ethic, anthropologic, cosmologic and theologic views of Plato undergone the influence. Development of demiurgic ideas in the following religious-philosophic traditions (Hellenistic-Roman and Eastern-Christian) was shown. Relation between implementing Christianity in Kyiv Rus and retranslation of Plato ideas onto Old-Rus thinks through Byzantine spiritual culture is considered. The Primary Chronicle by the monk Nestor, Catechism by Volodymyr Monomakh, The Story of Law and Grace by metropolitan Ilarion are analyzed in the paper.