This special episode focuses on the framework theorizing 7 levels of war in relation to the Russian war against Ukraine, organized in three overarching categories: geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geocultural or ontological.
In this twenty fifth and final episode of the first season, I focus on pacifism and just war theory, as well as the cultural and technological aspects of war in today's world, followed by a concluding summary discussion of freedom, authoritarianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and rhizomatic vs. arborescent thought.
In this twenty fourth episode, I introduce three meta-theories of war (political, eschatological, and cataclysmic) and seven currents of thought situated within that framework: realism, militarism, technological/posthumanist, just war theory, revolutionary/liberationist, pacifism, and cultural, with a discussion of their contemporary relevance.
In this twenty third episode, I continue examining the nature of violence by providing an overview of a number of influential theories and critiques of violence throughout history, including ontological, political, anthropological and mythical, psychological and clinical, evolutionary and ethological, and existential.
In this twenty second episode, I introduce a typology of violence, ranging from direct, physical and emotional violence through symbolic and cultural violence to economic, structural, and state-sanctioned violence.
In this twenty first episode , I provide an introductory overview of political philosophy, distinguishing it from the related field of political science, as a preface to a deeper investigation of the philosophies of war.
In this twentieth episode, I provide a philosophical comparison of both the mainstream European Enlightenment and the American Enlightenment exemplified by Jeffersonianism, and Skovoroda's own philosophy, to draw out the radical difference of the latter.
In this nineteenth episode, I introduce Ivan Kotliarevskyi, the founder of modern Ukrainian literature and theater, and compare his historical role to that of Hryhoriy Skovoroda and Thomas Jefferson, framing all three figures in the broader cultural and political context of the Enlightenment.
In this eighteenth episode, we walk through a comparative overview of the philosophy of Stoicism, its subsequent adaptation by Christianity, and its influence on the philosophy of Hryhoriy Skovoroda.
In this seventeenth episode, we journey through a comparative overview of the philosophy of Plato, the tradition of Neoplatonism, its subsequent adaptation by Christianity, and the philosophical synthesis of Hryhoriy Skovoroda.
In this sixteenth episode, we continue examining the Ukrainian intellectual tradition by examining the philosophy of the first truly Ukrainian philosopher - Hryhoriy Skovoroda, the "Ukrainian Socrates", who synthesized Stoicism and Neoplatonism with the Orthodox contemplative tradition of hesychasm.
In this fifteenth episode, we continue examining the Ukrainian intellectual tradition by looking in greater detail on the development of the uniquely Ukrainian Baroque humanist synthesis between the 16th and 18th centuries.
In this fourteenth episode, we begin our examination of the Ukrainian intellectual tradition by examining the historical background against which the particularly Ukrainian hybrid synthesis of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Humanism emerged. This dynamic Ukrainian humanism is contrasted with the unreformed and static Muscovite/Russian Orthodoxy.
In this thirteenth episode, we examine 13 movements of thought and classify them according to the level of reflection as well as to the cognitive process of information processing.
In this twelfth episode, we examine epistemology from a historical perspective, focusing on the subject/object dualism and the field of noetics.
In this eleventh episode, we return to epistemology and examine the difference between the two related perspectives on knowledge: episteme and gnosis.
In this tenth episode, we examine the historical development of psychiatry, as well as the radical anti-psychiatric critique and its contemporary legacies.
In this ninth episode, we approach philosophy as therapy and healing, as an introduction to the examination of the anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry movements.
In this eighth episode, we continue to look at the Russian war against Ukraine and deconstruct 10 propagandist lies told since 2014 about the roots of the current conflict.
In this seventh episode, we look at the Russian war against Ukraine and deconstruct 10 historical imperialist myths that shed light on the roots of the current conflict.
