Assignment of logic in the epistemology of Petro Lodiy

Abstract

The article deals with the life and creative heritage of Ukrainian and Russian educator, philosopher and lawyer Petro Dmytrovych Lodiy (1764-1829). The author proves that the philosophical views of P. Lodiy combined both radical educational ideas of I. Kant and conservative features of enlightenment with “dying” philosophy of Wolff, deism and theism, also rationalism by Leibniz-Wolff and predominant sensationalism by Locke. Lodiy’s method of philosophizing is mostly eclectic and unsystematic. The author translates ideological and philosophical evolution of P. Lodiy’s views from Wolffianism to moderate Kantianism.