Ukraine’s “Revolution of Dignity,” spanning both the 2013-2014 protests in Kyiv’s city center and the mass mobilization of grass-roots resistance against Russian aggression in 2014-2015 and thereafter, manifest new interpretations of ideas and philosophical concepts. In the first part of the article we unravel the meaning of the Ukrainian word hidnist (roughly translated as “dignity”)— a moniker of the revolution whose significance remains underestimated. In the second part we situate Ukraine’s revolution within a broader context of “modernity” and suggest its individualist foundation may be replaced by a form of “personalism”— an ethic that echoes that of Ukraine’s revolutionaries. In the third part of the article, we delve into the substance of the revolution’s agenda: its protagonists’ promise to build a non-hierarchical community of “fairness” (spravedlyvist). In the fourth and final section, the main argument of the article is summarized, namely: that the shift from individualism to personalism in social interaction and the transition from hierarchy to heterarchy in power relations, particularly with respect to institutionalizing “fairness,” embodied in the various structures and organizations formed during Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, may have been reflective of more comprehensive trends in ideational change affecting European (Western) civilization.

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揭开乌克兰革命的面纱：“尊严”、“公平”、“异质性”以及对现代性的挑战

乌克兰的“尊严革命”，包括 2013-2014 年基辅市中心的抗议活动和 2014-2015 年及之后大规模发动的基层抵抗俄罗斯侵略的运动，展现了对思想和哲学概念的新解释。在文章的第一部分，我们解释了乌克兰语 hidnist（大致翻译为“尊严”）的含义——一个其意义仍然被低估的革命的绰号。在第二部分，我们将乌克兰的革命置于“现代性”的更广泛背景下，并建议其个人主义基础可能会被一种“个人主义”形式所取代——一种与乌克兰革命者相呼应的伦理。在文章的第三部分，我们深入探讨了革命议程的实质：它的主人公承诺建立一个非等级的“公平”社区（spravedlyvist）。第四节也是最后一节总结了本文的主要论点，即：社会交往中的个人主义向个人主义的转变以及权力关系中的等级制向异质性的转变，特别是在制度化“公平”方面，体现在乌克兰尊严革命期间形成的各种结构和组织可能反映了影响欧洲（西方）文明的观念变化的更全面趋势。