Peace and Justice

The 2nd special episode continues examining the 7 levels of war, focusing on the ontological level, 5 global scenarios, the ontological platforms of China, Russia, USA, and Europe, and the concept of Ukrobuddhism.

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.