Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War

According to one founding myth, philosophy begins in Ancient Greece with Socrates abstracting from concrete examples of just activity in order to determine the timeless and eternal essence of justice.To this day, few philosophy journals are dedicated to the analysis of historically contingent current a airs, let alone a speci c event of historical signi cance, like Russia's fullscale invasion of Ukraine on February .So, to explain why I am editing a special issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica on the protracted con ict between Russia and Ukraine, I will brie y: detail my involvement in the current Russia-Ukraine war; describe the connection between my philosophical commitments and my recent activity in Kyiv; and elucidated the dialectical relation between academic and public philosophy, generally.Finally, I will o er