Andrusiv L. The rationalistic tendencies in the Ukrainian philosophical thought of the ХІ - early ХVІІ centuries

The thesis is devoted to the complex historical-philosophical investigation of the specificness of the rationalistic tendencies in the Ukrainian philosophical thought of the ХІ - early ХVІІ centuries as consolidation of the accent on the role of the mind in the comprehension of main paradigm of this or that historical period. The rationalistic character of the heresies of the ХV - early ХVІ centuries is textually proved and the thought of that the ideas of religious free-thinking, rationalization of the belief mysteries, renaissance interpretation of God, use of the means of logic and scientific-natural knowledge in the works of the Ukrainian humanists are an integral part of consolidation of the rationalistic tendencies, is deepened. The content of the binary notions outer and inner mind in the views of the Ukrainian polemists of the ХVІ - early ХVІІ centuries is exposed.