UK: Проаналізовано суспільно-історичні погляди П. О. Куліша в частині взаємовпливу науково-технічної цивілізації та духовної культури, встановлено можливість їх використання для визначення шляхів модернізації гуманітарної підготовки сучасних інженерних кадрів.
EN: The formulation of the problem. In modern conditions humanitarian training of Ukrainian engineering staff ensures the formation of a fully developed personality, awareness of the place in society, the definition of reasonable attitude to basic ontological problems of mankind. For this, among other things, it is necessary to answer the question of correlation (antagonism) of culture and civilization, which since the nineteenth century has occupied a prominent place in the Ukrainian public opinion, particularly in historiosophical views of P. Kulish. The analysis of recent research. At present the available scientific researches of P. Kulish’s creativity [1; 2; 3] have mostly literary character, the consideration of his social and historical views is made in them without system. The purpose of the article is to analyze the socio–historical views of P. Kulish in mutual influence of scientific and technological civilization and spiritual culture, to evaluate the possibility of using the theoretical heritage of outstanding Ukrainian philosopher to identify the ways of modernizing humanitarian training of engineers. The conclusions. Thus, even in the nineteenth century Panteleimon Kulish put in his usual sharp journalistic form the questions of the relation between scientific and technological civilization and "natural state", between the technical and economic progress and the desire to preserve the natural and cultural environment, which today have become extreme urgency and relevance. A positive solution of these issues is impossible without a radical change in the ideological orientation of professional training engineers as engine and instrument of science and technology.
