Abashnik V. Philosophy at the Kharkiv University: history of institutions, works and persons (1804-1920).

The object is the philosophy at the Kharkiv University. The aim is understanding and critical analysis of the evolution of philosophy at the University of Kharkiv from 1804 till 1920. The methods are historical and comparative, hermeneutic, structural, content analysis, synthesis, descriptive, semantic. In the dissertation the main periods of the evolution of the philosophical institutions (the department of theoretical and practical philosophy, after 1835 the department of philosophy, the Faculty of Philosophy) at the Kharkiv university, the creative way, the teaching activities and the most important works of their members from 1804 till 1920 are researched. It was proved that the important tradition of the Kharkiv university philosophy was the unity of the theoretical (metaphysics, logic, rhetoric, history of philosophy) and practical (moral philosophy, natural law, pedagogy, psychology) philosophy. The great influence of the western philosophy, including the ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle), classical German philosophy, the common sense philosophy (Thomas Reid), the Austrian philosophical tradition (Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong), on the philosophical positions of the Kharkiv professors and on their teaching of philosophy at the Kharkiv university were demonstrated. As a result of the complex analysis the important role of the Kharkiv university philosophy in the network of the university philosophy and the academic philosophy in Russia and Ukraine and its uniting mission in the evolution of the other university sciences and of the Kharkiv University as well were grounded. Application sphere is the teaching and learning process.