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an aristocracy of this historical moment: it "is the group of the best at the given
moment in history among the people of the nation, which are the best among it
because they are at the moment the organizers, rulers and rulers of the nation". The
essence of being an aristocracy, Lipinsky sees in its constant renewal, which is a

response to the needs of culture. The aristocracy is that part of a nation that is able
to act in accordance with the actual cultural and historical needs of the entire
nation at one time or another. One can notice that the notion of aristocracy in

Lipinsky is close to the notion of "creative minority", which is declared to be the
bearer of a "living impulse" and responds to historical "appeals" to A. Toynbee.
Finally, the nation in the concept of V. Lipinsky is primarily a "territorial

nation", which is united by the "sense of territorial patriotism." "Territorial
patriotism lies at the heart of any organic nation - it follows from the instinct of
settling", notes Lipinsky and specifies, "Ukrainian", his close friend, a man of one

nation, is every person who is organically (place of residence and labor) connected
with Ukraine , non-Ukrainian - is a resident of another land".
V. Lipinsky attaches great importance to the formation of culture. Through
the word ideas influence the human masses that live and are guided by the

elemental, subconscious, irrational "will". Formulated in the words, "The
conscious work of writers the image of the natural social desires of this group

awakens among her these desperate stills still in the subconscious."
Dmitry Dontsov (1883-1973) was a lawyer, philosopher and ideologue of
the Ukrainian national liberation movement, in his studies of cultural issues, took a
position close to the representatives of the "philosophy of life". He negatively

treated an idea of an exclusively "reasonable", logical development of culture in
general, and attempts to rationally justify and form intercultural relations,
interethnic in particular. Dontsov emphasized irrational, subconscious and

subjective aspects of cultural interactions. D. Dontsov treats history as a struggle
for domination. Moreover, "history claims that all can only dominate races,
inspired by a large uninteresting pause ("theological"idea), with great fanaticism,

which is an inevitable component of every idea that looks to the future. But on the
contrary, races and ideas that want to play a role in history have to cry not to the
world of "justice", only to their will and abilities – to throw a story in advance, to

work for progress".
Dmitry Chyzhevsky (1894-1977) was a prominent Ukrainian philosopher,
cultural scientist and literary scholar who studied at the St. Petersburg (1911-1913)
and Kyiv (1913-1918) universities, and in 1921 he deepened his philosophical

education in Germany (Heidelberg, Frankfurte-on- Maine), taking classes in such
leading European philosophers of the time as K. Jaspers, M. Heidegh and E.
Husserl. In 1924-1932 he taught at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich and at

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