{"id":72780,"date":"2026-06-03T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=72780"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:12:56","slug":"multiperspectivism-a-requirement-for-the-concept-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/multiperspectivism-a-requirement-for-the-concept-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiperspectivism: A Requirement for the Concept of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"In Western public discourse and the media, there\u2019s a phrase that\u2019s become widely accepted: the war in Ukraine is \u201can unprovoked war of aggression.\u201d The war is said to be the result of the imperialist ambitions of a Russian leader who is seeking to restore Tsarist-era grandeur. Anyone who challenges this narrative is suspected of spreading \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis interpretation has the advantage of simplicity. It draws a clear distinction between aggressors and victims, identifies a culprit, and defines one side as good and the other as evil. At the same time, it polarizes the interpretation and excludes other perspectives that, as it turns out, are well-founded and cannot simply be dismissed as \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d\u2014as we shall see.\n\n\n\nThis is by no means an atte<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Western public discourse and the media, there\u2019s a phrase that\u2019s become widely accepted: the war in Ukraine is \u201can unprovoked war of aggression.\u201d The war is said to be the result of the imperialist ambitions of a Russian leader who is seeking to restore Tsarist-era grandeur. Anyone who challenges this narrative is suspected of spreading \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d This interpretation has the advantage of simplicity. It draws a clear distinction between aggressors and victims, identifies a culprit, and defines one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17570,"featured_media":72510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8822,8823],"tags":[11802,8798,11803],"class_list":["post-72780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-geopolitics","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-21-2026-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-23-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72835,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780\/revisions\/72835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}