PHENOMENON OF HEROISM IN THE CONTEXT OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION
The Problem setting. Social and political processes, economic and state-building transformations in our country, and the military and political situation around Ukraine,led to the return o f the theme o f heroism to scientific discourse, rethinking the use o f heroic potential in shaping patriotic consciousness o f citizens, national identity o f Ukrainians. The problem o f heroism is connected with the evaluation o f the activity not only o f individual historical personalities or even whole generations o f the people, but also with its fixation in the cultural memory o f mankind. The phenomenon o f the heroic is in the range o f research interests o f many social sciences and in the focus o f attention o f educational institutions. The moral significance o f the heroic is important, because this concept has a significant educational potential, contributes to the formation o f humane, noble goals, active citizenship and patriotism Recent research and publications analysis. The essence o f the category o f the heroic was explored by J. Bruno, J. Vico, G. V. Hegel, T. Carlyle, D. Campbell, F. Nietzsche, K. Jung and others. The formation o f the phenomenon o f heroism is outlined in the works o f G. Skovoroda, P. Yurkevich, T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, L. Ukrainka, M. Hrushevsky, D. Dontsov, V. Lypynsky, G. Vashchenko, V. Sukhomlynsky, S. Krymsky, V. Baranivsky, O. Khmilyar.In the Western philosophical thought o f the XX century the understanding o f the heroic can be divided into four areas. The first direction continues to develop the concept o f T. Carlyle (understanding the hero as a «superman»), the second considers the hero as a social myth and tool o f psychoanalysis, for the third direction the hero is a phenomenon o f social consciousness, a regulator o f social life. The fourth is the concept o f degeneration, the representatives o f which reject the existence possibility o f the heroic in a postmodern society. Paper objective. The one o f the most important phenomena in a range o f scientific interests o f ...