ЦІННІСТЬ ІСТОРИКО-ФІЛОСОФСЬКОЇ СПАДЩИНИ І. МІРЧУКА: АКАДЕМІЧНО-ПЕДАГОГІЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ

The article analyzes the value of the historical and philosophical heritage of I.Mirchuk for the native philosophical thought in the context of the academic and pedagogical direction of the thinker’s activity. The author has shown that the key vector of the entire work of the philosopher was to care for the fate of Ukraine and to liberate it from the state of national-cultural enslavement on the one hand, and on the other hand to represent Ukraine as an equal European state. The paper proves that the realization of academic and pedagogical in conjunction with organizational-semi-latitudinal activity of I.Mirchuk was one of the leading aspects of the scholar’s philosophical aspirations, since it occupied a significant amount of time and creative inspiration of the philosopher. The article gives a list of scientific institutions, in which I.Mirchuk worked for a long time, as well as the positions he occupied. It has been determined that constant participation in virtually all academic initiatives gave the thinker an invaluable experience in organizing scientific life in the diaspora and leadership of scientific and educational institutions. The significance of I.Mirchuk for the activities of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin and the Ukrainian Free University has been revealed, and it was established that the philosopher combined an active academic and organizational work with a powerful pedagogical activity. Under the supervision of the scientist, such young scholars as D. Chyzhevsky, D. Buchinsky, Y. Koltun, A.Krotovil, Y. Boiko-Blokhin, B.Kurilas, E.Smalko, P.Savchuk, O.Voropay and Ch.Sobolevsky were habilitated. Within the framework of the academic and pedagogical direction of I.Mirchuk’s activity, the meaning of the thinker and as a propagandist and popularizer of not only Ukrainian culture and Ukrainian history, but also of Ukrainian studies as a whole has been revealed. According to the thinker, it was determined that Ukraine was a country that enabled communication between cultures, conscious of its belonging to the Western cultural world and while maintaining its own identity