Rebirth of Socratic Origins of Philosophy in the Digital Era

Oleksiy Panych put forward two theses: about the irrelevance of the concept of national philosophical tradition in the analysis of modern philosophical processes and about the impossibility of building such a tradition in modern Ukraine since this tradition is incompatible with the "internal polyglossiaˮ essential for Ukrainian philosophizing. I prove that the essential features of the national philosophical tradition highlighted by O. Panych do not consider modern developments of this concept. Developing Serhiy Yosypenko's idea about the institutional level of this tradition, I propose to understand it as a two-level social mechanism of self-reproduction of the national philosophical community within the boundaries of modern philosophical institutions. At the first level, this tradition results from a purely civil self-identification of each philosopher (this ensures the very existence and stability of the tradition); at the second one, multiple reflections are carried out regarding what this tradition is and where it comes from. The results of these levels do not reduce to each other and perform separate functions. This approach solves several complex theoretical problems, particularly the incompleteness of the criteria for defining the national philosophical tradition.