A science of being free

Last weekend the Initiative Group of December 1 pre­sen­ted the Ukrainian Char­ter of Free Person and held the roundtable “Ukraine on the path of self-iden­ti­fication.”

In spite of the arguments of the intellectuals that in some Euro­pean count­ries such char­ters have become the most pro­minent docu­ments and served the ground­work for consti­­tu­tions, the event has not drawn any ex­pec­ted response.

The in­for­mation about the char­ter and the roundtable has been spread only by a few publi­ca­tions and social net­works. Nei­ther did they receive any re­action from the govern­ment, or the oppo­sition.

The problems of legalization, argumentation, and above all, understanding of freedom were the main questions broa­ched at the roundtable.

The initiative group defined 10 directions, in which every Ukrainian should work: to be free, to be Ukrainian, be an active citizen, to love and think, to be a manager, to be a leader, to be an open society, to be a successful state, and to be involved in the democratic community.

The participants of the roundtable noted that historical background is the main hindrance for the historical community on its way to freedom: the inability to use its past experience to make correct conclusions and lack of the desire to reveal and overcome the problems inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union.