the Brest Union

This article analyzes the historical and philosophical studies of the philosophical and legal ideas in the works of the representatives of the Ukrainian polemical current, which was formed as a result of the Brest Union adoption in 1596. It considers a number of scientific works of the national and foreign historians and philosophers, basing on which you can pick out and analyze the philosophical and legal Ukrainian polemicists’ concepts.

This article analyzes the research work of theological, philosophical, legal and political science nature, from which we get information about philosophical and legal ideas in Ukrainian polemical literature, which appeared after the adoption of the Brest Union in 1596.

The article analyzes the historical conditions of the polemical current formation. The causes of the Brest Union adoption and its consequences for the Ukrainian society at the end of XVI – the beginning of the XVII century are analysed. It analyses the impact of the polemical struggle on the formation of the philosophical and legal ideas in Ukraine.

After the adoption of the Brest Union in 1596 in Ukraine a controversial trend appeared and the representatives of it were the leading thinkers of the time. Polemical literature that developed on the basis of the religious issues, raised a number of social, political, legal, philosophical and legal issues. One of these was the problem of social equality. Philosophical and legal ideas of social equality proposed by Ukrainian philosophers remain relevant to this day, especially during the development of the rule- of -law state and civil society in Ukraine.