V. Zenkovsky (1881-1962) was born in. Proskuriv (now Khmelnitsky) in a family of teachers. He studied and worked for some time in Kiev. And in 1918 five months served as minister of culture and religion in the government of Hetman P. P. Skoropadskoho and member of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian state. Where he is trying to reform the management Sv. Synodu of Russian Empire in Ukraine and directed its efforts at developing national culture as a necessary factor for the development of the Ukrainian state. After the revolution, he had to emigrate abroad. Great attention Zenkovsky concentrated to national education for every child, because "it has to attract people to the history of her country, to develop awareness of its duty to their homeland." He considered the question of national education in his publication "The national question in the world of Christianity." His interpretation of love for the Motherland sounds like a poem. Perhaps this is because he had to leave it after the events related to the revolution in Russia. In addition, in this regard, he had to live and work abroad until his death. "The peoples have their own strange destiny - to grow a given historical existence, others are not given - they are just on the border of historical existence. It is a source of painful experiences for a range of people - against them usually discarded right to real, national existence. Such a fate like Ukrainian. " The article analyzes the views of the philosopher V. Zenkovsky on the role of education in the formation of a free personality and the phenomenon of a free person. And also the spiritual and educational sense of freedom is considered in the context of building a social society. Also, an attempt to offer a holistic understanding of the phenomenon free person as defining the basics of human life on the example of the works of famous teacher and public figure V. Zenkovsky that will help in terms of reformation processes in the national education to understand the meaning of social education rights.

В статье анализируются взгляды философа В. Зеньковского на роль воспитания при формировании свободной личности и феномена свободного человека. А также рассматривается духовно-воспитательный смысл свободы в контексте построения социального общества.

У статті аналізуються погляди філософа В. Зеньковського на роль виховання при формуванні вільної особистості і феномена вільної людини. А також розглядається духовно-виховний сенс свободи в контексті побудови соціальної держави.