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Metahumanism Pod

Principled philosophical investigations of the current events and contemporary life at the intersection of metahumanism, metamodernism, and postcolonialism, with a particular focus on Ukraine.

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00:56:19

The Ontological War and Ukrobuddhism

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/11/02

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.

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00:28:38

Russian War on Ukraine: 7 Levels of War

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/10/23

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.

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00:42:25

Peace and Justice

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/09/26

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.

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01:00:00

War and Politics

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/09/11

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.

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01:04:41

Violence in Nature and Culture

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/09/04

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.

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00:56:01

Typology of Violence

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/08/28

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.

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01:07:48

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/08/21

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.

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00:51:28

Rationality vs. Heart: The Enlightenment and Skovoroda

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/08/14

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.

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01:00:45

Cultural vs. Political Enlightenment: Kotliarevskyi,...

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/07/31

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.

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00:55:37

Stoicism and Skovoroda

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/07/24

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.

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00:57:49

Plato, Neoplatonism, and Skovoroda

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/07/17

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.

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01:03:13

Hryhoriy Skovoroda: Philosophy of the Heart

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/07/09

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.

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01:01:32

Ukrainian Baroque Humanist Synthesis

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/07/02

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.

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00:56:46

Ukrainian Humanism vs. Muscovite Despotism

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/06/22

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.

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00:54:00

Epistemology: Movements of Thought

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/06/10

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.

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00:59:13

Noetics: Beyond the Subject/Object Dualism

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/05/27

In this twelfth episode, we examine epistemology from a historical perspective, focusing on the subject/object dualism and the field of noetics.

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01:02:10

Episteme vs. Gnosis: Rational and Mystical Knowledge

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/05/20

In this eleventh episode, we return to epistemology and examine the difference between the two related perspectives on knowledge: episteme and gnosis.

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01:07:08

History of Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/05/12

In this tenth episode, we examine the historical development of psychiatry, as well as the radical anti-psychiatric critique and its contemporary legacies.

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00:54:34

Philosophy as Therapy and Healing

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/05/06

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.

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00:53:08

Russian War on Ukraine - 10 Propagandist Lies Since 2014

Metahumanism Pod ·

2025/04/28

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.

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