https://www.radiosvoboda.org/amp/ukrayina-filosof-hryhoriy-skovoroda-300-rokiv/32145420.html
"The #philosopher of freedom." Even at 300 years old, Hryhoriy Skovoroda is very modern
December 3, 2022, 06:00
Rostislav Khotyn
..."The iconic image of #Skovoroda is a traveler "without a circle and a yard", as they would say in the popular language, with an obligatory bag on his back. And in that bag - the Bible and his own manuscripts. Well, and a pipe or a flute, which accompanied him everywhere. In his old age, he already walked with the shepherd like some kind of prophet - or maybe he was one?
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Skovoroda was interested in the themes of God and knowledge, love and friendship, peace of mind and sin, human defects and human strength... The core of his philosophy is self-knowledge, the inner world of man, his inner cosmos, the universe. "Know thyself!" - he taught.
"To know God, one must know oneself" - Hryhoriy Skovoroda
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In independent #Ukraine, everyone knew about Skovoroda - because he appeared on the 500-hryvnia banknote.
On the same banknote, there is also a pan drawing of an unusual fountain. This fountain fills vessels of different shapes with water.
"The idea of this fountain may be that you can be a vessel, a vessel of small volume, but the main thing is to be filled," philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko said in an interview with Radio Liberty , emphasizing that life should be lived to the fullest, no matter who whatever you are
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During the current war, Russian rockets hit the Skovoroda Museum in Kharkiv Oblast. The museum was destroyed, but the monument to Skovorodi stood."...
