Volodymyr Yermolenko

speaker

408 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jul

Volodymyr Yermolenko’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Thinking in Dark Times · What We Get Wrong About Power · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And I I think that uh that is that is interesting.

Yeah.

And that is very, very uh interesting to think about.

Uh the the the right wing perspective alwa also the extreme right uh uh always tend to think that you never have enough power.

You want more power, right?

And the the extreme left perspective always think that you have too much power, you need to have less power.

The the question is, however, is what is enough power?

What is that mesotes, Aristotelian Mesotis, which means that we have enough power?

And I think th th th the lack of this understanding that when power is not good nor bad, when power is never fully there, uh but it can be uh always emerging.

Uh comes comes the next very interesting question is that uh you always have to have this capacity to measure power and to judge what amount of power is needed now.

And I think this thinking of enough of sufficient quantities of something, sufficient quantities of power, and it's it's it's very maybe stupid.

Strange to think about that values also can be measured, that values also can have quantities.

And then I will come back to one of the classics of political philosophy who uh thinks in that way, and you will be probably surprised.

Uh, is is an interesting thought because I think that uh European thinking, the thinking that we are accustomed to, uh from the

In modern times, I think it went to you know to this as as a pendulum going between the extremes.

The idea of uh b being sufficient or having something sufficient, uh, the idea of some harmony.

I think that the last philosopher who was talking about harmony was Leibniz.

I don't think that after Leibniz, after this Baroque times, the Baroque epoch, the

17th century, maybe the last effort of the European culture to think about uh harmony, despite despite everything else.

Maybe I'm wrong, but but this is this is how I think it.

Showing 121–140 of 408 · page 7 of 21