Volodymyr Yermolenko
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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You you uh basically uh apply violence.
Uh so we
need to think and we have to think about other other forms of power and other forms of strength.
And I basically come back to the original sense of the term power and the French pouvoir, uh which which leads us to the Latin word potestas, which means I can, the ability.
Power is ability to do something.
It's not violence.
Violence is disability to do something.
Violence is powerless
In a way.
So when I when I when I look at democracies, for example, I think that one of the major problems of democracies in the current world, of the republican idea as opposed to imperial idea, is to how to think about strength, but not in a violent terms, how to rethink power and strength, how to not to equalize strength.
strength with violence and uh how to not uh how to not say that being good only means being weak being good only means you know having having having not having any strength, not having any power.
And I think this is a very important topic for, for example, European idea and European Union and many other cultures in the world probably that how we think strength and power without violence.
Uh how we are not afraid of being strong.
And when we we thematize when we think about what is what what does it mean to be strong, we don't think about violence.
We think about something else.
We think about authority.
We think about reputation.
We think about common action.
We think about solidarity and other things.
Okay, so this the first premise that power is violence and strength is violence.
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