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In man the inner nature is the soul; the outer, the body. 1767-68). More recently, Leonid Ushkalov published the first sustained study of Skovoroda’s acquaintance with classical authors (Ushkalov, 1997). First, they criticize, in Erasmian fashion, superstition and the literal interpretation of Divine Literature. Kyiv: DUKH I LITERA.

Halyna Bielikova and Larysa Chlenova, Compilers. The first is higher, for it imparts being to the second.

Scholars in both the East and West have been inclined to agree—with different degrees of emphasis—that the core of Skovoroda’s writings intimates a critique of organized theology as represented by the official church in the Russian empire.

Prevailing scholarly interpretations of his legacy have been inclined in two opposite directions.

Pylypiuk 1998: Natalia Pylypiuk, “Skovoroda’s Divine Narcissism,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Michael Naydan, guest ed., 22:1-2 (1997): 13-50. A secular person, he nonetheless preferred Latin for private correspondence, as did most Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs of the entire Mohylanian period (Brogi 1996, 1999).

By force of circumstance, Skovoroda became the first Ukrainian author to devote himself entirely to the literary craft.

After the cataclysmic events of the Stalinist thirties, the seventies were the first time that Soviet scholars had the opportunity to study Ukrainian elite and pre-secular culture. Unfortunately, the thaw Khrushchev had initiated ended in 1972 and repressions resumed until the mid-80s.

Ushkalov L. Hryhorij Skovoroda: seminarij (2004).

The year 1973 saw the publication of the most complete edition of Skovoroda's oeuvre (Skovoroda, 1973), a collection that—unfortunately—repeated the editorial errors of its less complete, 1961, predecessor. In the macrocosm the inner nature is God, and the outer is the physical world.

Skovoroda H. Povna akademichna zbirka tvoriv (2011) / Za red.

Education Resumed and Teaching in Pereiaslav

"Cathedral of the Ascension in Pereiaslav" by Taras Shevchenko, 1845

Pereiaslav Collegium Today

In the fall of 1744, Skovoroda resumed his studies under Kozachyns’kyi, who by now had become Rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Pylypiuk 2005: Natalia Pylypiuk, “Diva i Maty: Paradoksy barokovoho portreta Mudrosty.” Ukraïna XVII stolittia: suspil'stvo, filosofiia, kul'tura.

In his poetry and prose Biblical quotations serve a twofold purpose. Bryn Mawr College. One, informed by Socialist Realism, promoted him as a ‘people's writer’ (Shynkaruk and Ivan’o, 1973; Myshanych, 1994), emphasizing those aspects of his thought that appeared to frame him as a proto-materialist (Ivan’o 1970; Tabachnikov 1972).