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The Age of Will: Philosophical Foundations, Political Expressions, and Cultural Shifts

― Issue 1(27), 2025

Editor of this issue: Maija Kūle

Contents

Maija Kūle THE AGE OF WILL:
INTRODUCTION INTO THE THEME

4

PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF WILL

Algis Mickunas METAPHYSICS OF THE WILL

20

Jānis Tālivaldis Ozoliņš WILL, DESIRE,
AND NECESSITY

37

Bence Peter Marosan RATIONAL WILL AND RATIONAL MOTIVATION.
HUSSERL ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ORGANIZING
A RATIONAL COMMUNITY

61

Giulio Lo Bello A PHENOMENOLOGY OF UNCERTAINTY:
ON THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY
AND THE AGE OF ANXIETY

75

POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS OF WILL TODAY

Mikhail Minakov FREEDOM AND PROGRESS
AT THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF WILL:
THE STRUGGLE OF TWO ENLIGHTENMENTS
IN THE CURRENT EURO-ATLANTIC DEBATE

97

Leons Taivāns WILLFUL LEADERSHIP AND RELIGIOUS HERITAGE
IN ASIA: XI JINPING, VLADIMIR PUTIN,
AND RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN

145

Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
& Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah
REASONABILISM AND CREATIVE
RE-HUMANIZATION OF WILL IN AFRICA:
A TRANSCOLONIAL REFLECTION

176

Yulia Sineokaya BARBARISM AS A RESULT OF THE OBSESSION
WITH STATE-CIVILIZATION

198

Oleksandr Kulyk THE WILL TO FREEDOM: A UKRAINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE ISSUE OF WILL

212

Tatiana Shchyttsova THE GOOD WILL OF THE PEOPLE:
THE RISE OF A DEMOCRATIC WE
AND A CONTENTION OVER SOVEREIGNTY
IN THE BELARUSIAN REVOLUTION OF 2020

238

CULTURAL TRENDS AND SOCIAL FEELING

Māris Kūlis WEAKNESS AS VALUE
IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN CULTURE

254

Olga Shparaga CARING DEMOCRACY AS A RESPONSE
TO THE FAR-RIGHT POPULISM:
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE FROM BELARUS
AND BEYOND

272

Maija Kūle BIG EVENTS, WILL AND THE QUEST
FOR HUMAN AUTONOMY
IN THE POSTPANDEMIC WORLD

290

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