The course “Intelligence and intelligentsia”

Content of the discipline:

Propaedeutics. The concept of “intellectual”.

1. The emergence of intellectuals in ancient and medieval societies.
2. The concept of “intellectual” by Karl Liebelt: “On the Love of the Fatherland (1844). A moral leader, a leader of society.
3. An intellectual and mental labor.
4. The intelligentsia as an underclass, a “layer” in the USSR.
5. Intellectual and intellectual (creator).
6. Misinterpretations of the concept of “intellectual”: biological, educational, and ethical.
7. Opposites of an intellectual: boor, barbarian, ignoramus, inhuman, slave.

Intellectuals as the spiritual elite of the nation.

1. Definition of intelligence as an essential feature of an intellectual.
2. The main features of an intellectual are intelligence, education, and culture. Other traits: spiritual leadership, ideology, nationalism, altruism, and existential outlook.
3. Definition of an intellectual.
4. The distinction of an intellectual: not an employee, not an intellectual, not an escapist.
5. Intellectuals in society (and other social and spiritual types).
6. Intelligence as a goal in general education, an intellectual as a goal of higher education.

The character of the intellectual in Ukrainian classical literature.

1. Taras Shevchenko.
2. Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky.
3. Borys Hrinchenko.
4. Ivan Franko.
5. Lesya Ukrainka.

Intellectuals in the Ukrainian Literature of the Twentieth Century.

1. Experience in messaging.
2. Mykola Khvylovyi.
3. Borys Antonenko-Davydovych.
4. Lina Kostenko.
5. Mykola Vingranovsky.
6. Petro Skunts.
7. Vasyl Stus.

The Problem of the Intellectual in Ukrainian Literature of the Independence Era.

1. Lina Kostenko, Petro Skunts, Borys Oliynyk, and Dmytro Kremin.
2. Pavlo Volvach.
3. Ihor Pavliuk.
4. Borys Tomenchuk.
5. Yuriy Shcherbak.

Intellectuals in World Literature.

1. Dante Alighieri.
2. Humanism. A new “spiritual” aristocracy. Thomas More, Tomaso Campanella.
3. Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Romanticism. Nationalism, individualism, idealism, and Christianity.
4. Miguel de Unamuno.
5. Rainer Maria Rilke.
6. Aldous Huxley.
7. George Orwell.
8. William Golding.
9. John Fowles.
10. Ray Bradbury.
11. Michelle Welbeck.