ORIGINS OF UKRAINIAN MENTALITY
In the present article the sources and the contemporary interpretation of Ukrainian mentality are analyzed through one of the basic concepts of culturology - the concept “of heart”, which has symbolic meaning in many cultures of the world, representing the female center of mental and spiritual life of people, that reflected in a special Ukrainian philosophy - “the philosophy of heart”. Distinguishing the common features of Ukrainian ethnic mentality the author shares psychological approach and denies any other, especially ideological. Particularly valuable in our opinion is the problem of cordocentrism in idea of Ukrainian artistic elite, whose artistic manner appears to be unique in the expression of the mentality of its own people. Thus, the artistic mentality, being free per se and using the specific synthesis of arts, helps with the impartial coverage of this problem.