擁有哲學碩士學位的烏克蘭人安東‧塔拉修克 (Anton Tarasyuk)，目前在基輔和夥伴們一同發起了「哲學家挺烏克蘭」(Philosophers for Ukraine) 的計劃。這個計劃是要蒐集哲學家的聲明，出言反對俄羅斯攻擊烏克蘭，或者支持烏克蘭人民。
計劃網站的首頁寫道：
在二月二十四日，俄羅斯對烏克蘭發動戰爭。這是二戰之後第二大的歐洲戰爭。
沒有人像哲學家那樣明瞭，保持沈默會付出什麼樣的代價。曾經有那麼一位海德格1。不過也有沙特與漢娜鄂蘭。這給了我們希望。
我們呼籲哲學社群聲援烏克蘭。成為和平與正義的使者。 #PhilosophersForUkraine
值得注意的是，這個網站可能時不時會斷線。塔拉修克說：
可能時不時會發生一些技術問題，因為所有的工作，不誇張，都是在進出防空洞之間完成的，而且烏克蘭的網路明顯有問題。
塔拉修克請求讀者們一旦網站發佈了新的宣言，就儘量廣傳出去，在社群媒體上標誌 #PhilosophersForUkraine。
哲學媒體 Daily Nous 於三月三日時，在網站上轉發了這個來自哲學家辛格 (Peter Singer) 的消息，呼籲大家一同行動。3
至截稿時間為止，「哲學家挺烏克蘭」的網站上已經發佈兩位哲學家的宣言。一位是芝加哥大學哲學系與法學院教授納思邦 (Martha C. Nussbaum)。她寫道：
我向烏克蘭人民致上我的愛與由衷的希望
我向烏克蘭人民致上我的愛與由衷的希望，他們展現出非凡的勇氣，挺身抵抗驚人的邪惡。世界和你們站在一起。
Martha Nussbaum我的國家和其他北約國家都決心不讓惡勢力勝出。面對如此公然違反國際法與人類尊嚴的暴行，哲學幾乎無話可說。烏克蘭土地上到處發生違反人性的罪行。
不過我相信，如果西方國家一起站出來相挺，我們終將會勝利。普丁甚至無法鼓舞俄羅斯軍隊的士氣，只要這些人像個正直的人類一樣思考，通常就會放棄作戰。
撐下去，勇敢的弟兄姊妹們，願你們成為歷史上的一個典範，告訴大家強權如何不就是公理。4
第二個宣言由南加州建築學院哲學教授格雷安‧哈曼 (Graham Harman) 發出。他寫道：
我們必須力挺烏克蘭
上個星期在烏克蘭發生的震憾，在很多方面，就像看到歷史課本上最糟糕的一章再次發生在我們眼前的那種震憾。
Graham Harman由於拿任何人去和希特勒比較都是一件危險的事情，就讓我們僅限於談論神似希特勒的作法：宣稱鄰國無權存在、閃電入侵邊境、砲擊平民區、入侵一國首都、派遣打擊部隊去消滅一位明明就是民選出來的總統。當這些事情上次在歐洲如此明目張膽出現時，我們幾乎都還沒出世，雖說有很多人記得在巴爾幹半島發生的暴行。不過讀過書和看過紀錄片，我們全都在童年時期一再被如此的景象所震憾。如果你要知道你會如何看待 1939 年的波蘭，只要清楚地說出你如何看待今日的烏克蘭就可以了。
不幸的是，無疑還是會聽到右派法西斯份子支持普丁行動的說法。和這些可悲人物對話是毫無意義的。
但更令人失望的是，這樣的言論也出現在左派。再怎麼不堪，左派也是一個以希望為名，抵抗不平等與剝削的道德陣營。烏克蘭處於一個明確的道德時刻，任何人都不該被他們自己的國族主義或（俄羅斯、中國、委內瑞拉的）地緣政治棋局搞到精神錯亂。
不幸的是，這明擺的事實可能被左派中的競爭教條所忽略：反美主義，以及它的反北約論者同黨。然而，無論一個人對後蘇聯美式和平持哪一種看法、無論我們可以從美國歷史上找到哪些罪行、無論西方世界可能對俄羅斯歷史上的恐懼心態有絲毫的同情，這些全都無法合理化對烏克蘭之犧牲的冷嘲熱諷。
把所有政治上的抽象辭彙先擺一邊，比起生活在一個日漸茁壯的烏克蘭民主社會中，我們沒有人會想要生活在一個被毀壞殆盡的軍事保護國之中。我們閒坐著並像吃太飽的貪吃鬼一樣批評我們自己的社會，而卻要烏克蘭人來提醒我們說，我們有可能失去哪些東西：自由、自決，以及法治。
告訴我你如何看待烏克蘭，而我會告訴你，你是什麼樣的人。我們必須支持烏克蘭。5
哲學新媒體響應這個行動，將持續追蹤計劃的後續發展與成果。
I send my love and heartfelt wishes to the people of Ukraine
I send my love and heartfelt wishes to the people of Ukraine, who are showing enormous courage in standing up against colossal evil. The world stands with you.
My nation and the other nations of NATO are united in our determination that evil will not prevail. Philosophy has little to say in the face of such obvious violations of international law and human decency. Crimes against humanity are being committed all over Ukraine.
But what I believe is that if the nations of the West stand together with you we will prevail in the long run. Putin has shown his inability to inspire courage even in the Russian army, who are thinking like decent human beings and often refusing to fight.
Carry on, brave brothers and sisters, and may you be an example to all history of how right can make might.
We Must Support Ukraine
The shock of the past week in Ukraine was, in large part, the shock of seeing some of the worst chapters from history textbooks re-enacted before our eyes.
Since it is perilous business to compare anyone to Adolf Hitler, let’s limit ourselves to speaking of Hitler-like actions: declaring that a neighboring country has no right to exist, blitzing through its border posts, shelling civilian neighborhoods, inflitrating thuggish saboteurs into a capital city, sending a hit squad to dispose of a duly elected President. Few of us were alive when these things last happened so blatantly in Europe, though many remember the atrocities in the Balkans. But as readers of books and viewers of documentary films, we have all shuddered at such imges repeatedly since childhood. If you want to know how you would have reacted to Poland in 1939, just state clearly what you think of Ukraine today.
Unfortunately, it is no surprise to hear words of support for Putin’s actions from the slithery proto-fascists of the Right who leak from the cracks of Europe or lament their missed opportunity to murder the American Congress. There is no point in dialogue with such wretched figures.
It is more disappointing when such sentiments come from the Left. At its best, the Left is a moral case against inequality and exploitation in the name of hope. Ukraine ought to be a clear moral moment for anyone not distracted by their own nationalisms or geopolitical chess moves (Russian, Chinese, Venezuelan).
Unfortunately, this clarity can be obscured by a competing imperative on the Left: anti-Americanism, and its corollary anti-NATOism. But whatever gripes one might have with the post-Soviet pax Americana, whatever crimes we might spotlight from American history, whatever historic Russian fears might spark passing sympathy in the West, none of this justifies a cruel laugh at Ukraine’s expense.
All political abstractions aside, there is not one of us who would prefer life in a demolished military protectorate to life in the growing new democracy of Ukraine. We lie back and critique our own societies like jaded gluttons, and it takes the Ukrainians to remind us of what we all could still lose: freedom, self-determination, the rule of law.
Tell me what you think of Ukraine, and I’ll tell you who you are. We must support Ukraine.
