Life as a struggle. How, how much and why to fight? Struggle in the context of the human value hierarchy. Homeland and sacred things. How to take control of your identity and values. Knowledge, responsibility, and defense system. Victory and defeat. How to win and how to lose. How to secure victory and overcome defeat. A sense of reality and long-term thinking. The enemy and the friend. Who to fight against and with whom to travel? Respect for the enemy, gratitude for the friend, and a sense of one's own dignity. Methods and ways of struggle. The Feast of the Holy Translators as an example of long-term thinking and of coordinated struggle.

1. What is history for Armenians: memory of the past, interpretation, creative work, or source of inspiration?
2. The main narratives and ideas of historical knowledge. What is the metanarrative or grand narrative of Armenian identity?
3. History of virtue. What values does history convey to us, and what moral responsibility do we bear towards it?
4. Alive and dead history. History as a continuous drama. What is our role in the historical drama?
5. History as a reality. Are we living in reality, or are we running away from reality?
6. Legacy of resolved and unresolved issues. What historical burden do we leave to future generations?
7. Formation of historical thinking. How to present and teach history.

Culture as a living environment or system of thinking, work, relations, goodness, and ideals.

Cognitive and moral axioms of culture, and paradigms derived from them.

Self-realization, creation, and order (culture) versus self-destruction, consumption, and chaos (anti-culture).

The role of culture against the crisis of meaning and purpose. The society of the lonely Culture as a living environment or system of thinking, work, relations, goodness, and ideals.
    Cognitive and moral axioms of culture, and paradigms derived from them.
    Self-realization, creation, and order (culture) versus self-destruction, consumption, and chaos (anti-culture).
    The role of culture against the crisis of meaning and purpose. The society of the lonely and the disconnected individuals. Zombie as symbols of cultural apocalypse.
    Cultural integrity and national identity. Danger of copying and artificial solutions. The need to synthesize your own and the will to take up your cross.
    Cultural prohibitive commandments or restrictive rules. Limiting of the self and desires for higher collective goals. Positive asceticism. Spirit of sacrifice and living culture. Culture in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
    How the emerging culture solves the problem of the accessibility of the truth and moral ideals. Deadlock of linear algorithms. Does the human brain work as a quantum computer. And the disconnected individuals. Zombie as symbols of cultural apocalypse.

Cultural integrity and national identity. Danger of copying and artificial solutions. The need to synthesize your own and the will to take up your cross.

Cultural prohibitive commandments or restrictive rules. Limiting of the self and desires for higher collective goals. Positive asceticism. Spirit of sacrifice and living culture. Culture in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

How the emerging culture solves the problem of the accessibility of the truth and moral ideals. Deadlock of linear algorithms. Does the human brain work as a quantum computer.

• The necessity and role of freedom in human life. For what purpose, why and from what do we want to be free?
• The relationship between freedom and identity. Free will, image, and likeness of God. Determinism and fatalism.
• The direction and responsibility of freedom. Goodness, morality, and truth.

«And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free» (John 8:32).
«Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom» (B. Franklin).

• Inner or spiritual freedom. The ideal of a liberated human.
• False freedom and delusions.
• Freedom as a courage to live, think and create. Freedom as a bridge to the unknown and hidden. Freedom as a key to innovation and creativity.
• Education and freedom.

What happens when culture and technology combine. What is art and what place does it have in people’s lives. Cultural future of humanity. Ethical problems of AI and what consequences it may have.

The main features of collective identity (common feelings, interests, beliefs). National soul, will, and morality. The most important events and sources of the Armenian identity. What values ​​derive from them, and how vital are they for us today? The will and courage to transform. Responsibility for the future.

The need for leadership and its role in human life.
The types of leadership and their transformation over time.
What criteria should leaders meet, and how should they be prepared?
Leader-follower relationship and responsibilities.
Political leadership and national psychology.      
Selection of the public leadership model in terms of national identity.
The role of elites in the formation of leadership culture.
The ways to overcome a crisis of leadership.

What is the good, and what is its place in our value hierarchy? The good as a spiritual, philosophical, cultural, and cognitive ideal. Classifications of the good: spiritual and material, common and individual, complete and partial, eternal and temporary. Virtue as an actualization of the good․ The struggle between good and evil. The nature of evil. Conscience and choice.

What do individuals and societies value, and why do certain realities need to be valued? Values as a basis of knowledge. Correlation of values with identity, mission, and vision. The main classifications of values․ Are there fundamental values that are shared by all civilizations? The value base of education?

The role of truth in the process of knowledge and self-knowledge. What does the word truth mean in different languages ​​and civilizations? How does the truth centrism affect the formation of cultures? The truth in Christianity. What is the price of truth, and how much are we willing to sacrifice for the sake of truth?

The role and significance of knowledge in human life. How and what do we know? Self-knowledge in the process of general knowledge. The difficulties and challenges of the path to self-knowledge. Knowledge within the context of education. What and how do we teach to know? The issue of self-knowledge in education. Machine learning and artificial intelligence.