THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL GAPS OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATIONAL CHOICE

The article closes theoretical and conceptual gaps of European civilizational choice: argumentative contradictions within the ways to implement the European civilizational choice in Ukraine's political life, the variability of European civilization values Ukraine can choose, the results of the implementation of Ukraine's European civilization choice in political practice were analyzed. The axiological-normative, structural-functional and comparative methods helped to prove that possible ways to implement the European civilization choice in Ukraine's the political life either have internal contradictions or will lead to the loss of Ukraine's statehood, thus it is not advisable for Ukraine to choose the European civilizational values in their pure form. As far as the implementation of Ukraine's European civilizational choice on the level of political practice is concerned, so far it is coherent to superficial and ritualized civilizational identification as opposed to substantial and existential civilizational identity. Ukraine's civilizational choice that entails the implementation of European civilizational values in their pure form is extremely problematic and unlikely under the current socio-political conditions. The results of the study can be used in further political-theoretical research that aims to find more realistic and viable concepts of Ukraine's civilizational choice.