
"The Garden of Love": Philosophy of Hryhoriy Skovoroda
1995, 9 min
State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.
Theatrical film "The Garden of Love" with reading of philosophical texts and fragments of letters of Hryhoriy Skovoroda to his student and friend Mykhailo Kovalynsky.
Reference: Hryhoriy Skovoroda is a Ukrainian philosopher, poet, teacher and itinerant educator, a representative of the Baroque and Early Enlightenment tradition. At the center of his teachings is the idea of the inner man, self-knowledge and vocation. Skovoroda developed an original philosophical system, synthesizing elements of ancient ethics, Christian mysticism and Neoplatonism, which became the basis for the formation of the Ukrainian intellectual tradition.