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The paper analyzes one of the major aspects in the socio-political conception of Bogdan Kistiakivsky, the Ukrainian philosopher, man of law, and sociologist of the beginning of the ХХ century, namely, the connection of his liberal principles and his national persuasions. It is established that Ukrainian thinker grounded his views on the conception of natural human rights and principles of the normative-value approach to society, which were developed by philosophy of neokantianism. He distinguished the ideal plan of the social being, which is formed by values and norms, servings as reference-points for people in their public life. The basis of liberalism is acceptance of political and legal values and norms, providing free development of personality. The means of realization of these norms is the legal state which B. Kistiakivsky understood as realization of human solidarity. He considered the cultural public to be the subject of the norms creation. This cultural public has a national character and gives a national form to norms and values. The conclusion is made in the paper about B. Kistiakivsky's accepting the necessity of the state support to the development of the national culture, as common to all mankind norms of morals, law, cognition, artistic work, to his mind, are fully and without compulsion realized only in the national cultural forms.

The paper analyzes the principles of political philosophy of Ukrainian historian and political thinker I. P. Lysiak-Rudnitsky. The attention is focused on the joining up of the liberal theory of state and the Ukrainian national idea. It is shown that I. P. Lysiak-Rudnitsky follows the fundamental ideas of liberalism according to which the state exists for the sake of maintaining the personal interests of its citizens. But the persons in Ukrainian thinker conception are not separated one from another, they form the ethnic communities – the peoples. The peoples become nations when the persons realize the necessity to defend their common national interests by state. The state, which is formed for the defense of a certain nation interests, is to be a national state. Such state is orientated on the personal interests of its citizens as their national interests are personal from the point of view of their being the interests of a person belonging to a definite nation. So according to I. P. Lysiak-Rudnitsky conception the necessity of the national state is founded on the nations existence and the latter is no more than the manifestation of personal interests of those who realize the affiliation with a definite nation. The conclusion is made in the paper as for the resolving the contradiction between liberalism and nationalism in the analyzed conception.