ГЕНЕЗА ТА СУТНІСТЬ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕЇ: ДЕРЖАВНО-ПРАВОВИЙ АСПЕКТ
Authors: Boyko Ihor 
Published: July 2024

The article analyzes the genesis and essence of the Ukrainian national idea and defines its state and legal aspects. It is noted that the Ukrainian national idea is considered as an important driving force of the nation's development and should become the main factor in the unification of Ukrainian society, development, establishment, and protection of the Ukrainian state. It is emphasized that the Ukrainian national idea has three basic components: freedom, justice and security, which are important components of national values. Among the features of the Ukrainian national character, the love of freedom, democracy, religiosity, hard work, tolerance, and hospitality of Ukrainians stand out. The national idea matured in the deep layers of the nation's (people's) social consciousness. It is unifying because it always corresponds to the collective aspiration of the national community. It is shown that the Ukrainian national idea is the foundation of national ideology, determines the foundations of national consciousness and contributes to the development and consolidation of the state. The Ukrainian national idea is love for one's people, responsibility, concern for their better fate, well-being and dignity, it is international harmony and harmony. The Ukrainian national idea, especially today, is an important motivating factor in terms of protecting Ukraine from the russian aggressor. The Ukrainian national idea is an important concept of state formation. The Ukrainian national idea focuses on the most significant interests of the state and society, provides for their implementation and protection. The main goal of the Ukrainian nation was the creation of its own state, which would manage public affairs on the principles of freedom, justice, equality, and people's rule. The state is the result, the result of the nation's development. It is worth emphasizing that the process of the nation's realization of the need to create its own state was long and went through a number of important stages. It is noted that the Ukrainian national idea is closely interconnected with the history of statehood. Basically, the national idea and statehood came down to the struggle against national enslavement, the assimilation of Ukrainians, the struggle for independence, national self-determination, and the formation of a sovereign cathedral state. Activity aimed at forming a high level of development of the Ukrainian nation, national identity, national character, national consciousness and national character was and is a component of the Ukrainian national idea. This is also an activity for the preservation and development of the national language, culture, literature, for the creation of a national school, national intelligentsia, i.e. national revival and consolidation, improvement of the Ukrainian state. It is emphasized that the Ukrainian national idea should be realistic and concrete. It is defined in Article 1 of the current Constitution of Ukraine: "Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, legal state" and in its Preamble, which enshrines "the irreversibility of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic course" Building such a state is the goal of the modern Ukrainian people. But today our most important goal is the protection and preservation of the Ukrainian state, victory over the russian aggressor for the sake of Ukraine's happy future. It is argued that today it is important to develop and approve at the state level the Concept of the development of the Ukrainian national idea, identity and unity, in which to define the most important tasks of the modern Ukrainian state. In this Concept, the basic vector should be the Ukrainian national idea, which forms national identity, unity and harmony in society. The components of the modern Ukrainian national idea are: the victory of Ukraine; establishment of an independent and democratic Ukraine; national unity, equality and harmony in society; high level of spirituality, culture, unity of language, history, culture; economic growth of Ukraine based on the development of agriculture, industrialization, innovation; the development of a labor society in which diligence, honesty, and the cult of education are valued, which is the basis of well-being; national security and Ukraine's participation in the EU, NATO, other authoritative international organizations, as well as participation in solving global and regional problems. Keywords: Ukrainian national idea, state formation, state, law, Ukraine.