Bodnar K. Change of paradigms in the foundation and development of the theory of a civil society (historical-philosophical aspect)

The complex historical-philosophical analysis of a process of an establishment of a civil society in Ukraine was carried out in the paper. The evolution of the contents of the notion civil society was traced. The contents of the modern approach to determine the essence of a civil society, peculiarities of its establishment on condition of a post totalitarian transformation were discovered. It was determined that the main contradiction of the processes of the establishment of the civil society institutes in Ukraine is in the discrepancy between the obtained forms of a democratic influence of a civil society on a state and their real to an essential extend undemocratic contents. It was proved that the theoretical execution of the conceptions about the civil society and its role as a social environment of a person and the subject of an interaction with the state was started in the period of Antiquity. The impetuous development of the social conceptions of those times was caused by the practical needs of the formation of the foundations of an ancient Greek, and later ancient Roman democracy and the general rather high degree of a culture and especially philosophy. The principal attention was paid at the analysis of the establishment and development of the civil society theory of the three main paradigms: pre-modern, modern, newest. The author analyses the peculiarities of the establishment of the civil society in the newly created national state in the context of the problem of the national-cultural unity achievement in the conditions of the Ukrainian society.