“philosophy of the heart”

The article deals with the problemof the origin and the atmosphere of forming philosophical and legal perspectives of Ukrainian scholar D. Chyzhevsky, his views of the rational and the irrational, the development of the doctrine of the “philosophy of the heart”, reflections on the conditionality of the fate of a person or a nation by its character and historical circumstances. A great attention is paid to the creative atmosphere of the free western philosophical thought, which was the ground of becoming the philosophical views of the scientist.