2025-04Forum
Understanding this Dire Historical Moment – an Essay

31/05/2026  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2025.0039

Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to explain this extraordinary historical moment – through the crises that constitute the malaise of modernity and the root cause of this malaise – modernity’s flight from the ascetic norms. But although worthy, this historical method cannot explain why history appears to be hastening. To explain this,…

Eidos Redaktor2

2022-04Thematic Section
Puppeteer Putin

31/03/2023  / 
DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2022.0033

Abstract: In this essay, the author regards the individual as the chief courier of History, and Mr. Putin, the immediate cause of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – distinguishing his agency from broad precipitating socio-historical causes that deny inwardness, individuality, and free-will. A dark puppeteer, Mr. Putin is more sinister than Plato’s puppeteers (Allegory…

Jan Molina