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THE BEGINNING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES AT THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF ST. VOLODYMYR


Author:
D. Ye. Predko, PhD in Philosophy,
Assistant Professor at the Department of General Psychology
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0001-7760-6957 Researcher ID: AAQ-9214-2020 Scopus ID: 58683284200
E-mail: denyspredko@knu.ua

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/upj.2024.1(21).8

Article Information
Issue: 1(21) 2024, pages: 124-137
Language: English
Received: 27.05.2024
1 st Revision: 01.06.2024
Accepted: 07.06.2024

Abstract


The article discusses the main directions of first psychological studies at Saint Volodymyr Imperial University of Kyiv as they were included in the scientific and pedagogical work of the University lecturers. In their lectures and writings, the professors emphasized that answers to existential questions should be sought in the religious sphere, since religion allowed a person to expand the boundaries of his or her self and make a breakthrough into the realm of the Divine. Their psychological heritage draws attention to internal intentions, to emotional experiences as an individual’s inner reality, thanks to which his or her self is formed. Their works granted an independent status to the human mental world and examined its certain laws: comprehension of psychological ideas and concepts in a person’s life; studies on the peculiarities of religious consciousness, its significance and influence on human behavior and actions; comprehension of the issue of a soul and its essential characteristics; analysis of the issues of sleep and dreams. The University of St. Volodymyr employed specialists with a broad outlook. They were familiar with the then-time achievements in philosophy and carried out scientific research in psychological science actual for their time. Our study reconstructs the lecturers’ psychological achievements that combined both theological and religious-philosophical reflections of the then-time scientific and religious discourses. The lectures proposed several psychological ideas, concepts, perceptions, attitudes, and practices that played an important role in the formation of both the educational-scientific space of St. Volodymyr’s University and the national spiritual culture as a whole.

Key words:
Imperial University of St. Volodymyr, lecturers in psychology, psychological ideas, theology, areas of psychological research.

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