INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN VALUES ON PATRIOT-STATESMAN’S DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This article analyses the influence of European values on patriot-statesman’s development. Knowledge
of European values gives opportunity to make complex characteristics on the following issue taking into account
socio-cultural, economic, demographic, geographic, religious and other peculiarities; helps to identify the level
and character of influence of religious and ethical teachings on establishment and functioning of European
values; creates a respectful and careful attitude to the historical heritage and cultural traditions of the peoples
of Ukraine and abroad, tolerant perception of social, religious and cultural differences.
Patriotic education is impossible without international one, love and respect for other people, especially our
neighbours. The value of international education, in our opinion, means that people of different nationalities
understand and enrich each other spiritually, study national identity, culture and customs of the peoples who
live nearby, because the use of a different historical and cultural heritage is one of the means of international
education, which gives the opportunity to understand better both the meaning of patriotic education of youth,
to form a national identity, however, the content of national consciousness keeps people’s historical memory
about their past, present, certain ideas, dreams and hopes for the future.
Liberal fundamental human rights and freedoms, democratic principles of state management as well as legal
and social state are the core of European values. As a combination of liberal and democratic ideas, European
values are designated as “liberal and democratic” ones. They have become the principles of functioning of state
and political institutions of modern European countries and the European Union. Modern Ukrainian education is
aimed at civil identity development, regardless of national-ethnic, gender, cultural and linguistic ones.