Irakli Batiashvili

Irakli Batiashvili (born July 8 1961, Tbilisi) is Georgian scientist, politician and philosopher.
==Biography==
===Early life===
[./Https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/ირაკლი_ბათიაშვილი_(პოლიტიკოსი) Irakli Batiashvili] was born on July 8, 1961 in Tbilisi. He graduated from Tbilisi's #1 secondary school. In 1978-1983, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Tbilisi State University. 
===Political and philosophical career===
Irakli Batiashvili was one of the leaders of the national liberation movement since 1986 and one of the organizers of the April 9 protests (1989). He was brutally beaten almost to death by Soviet soldiers and was found among the bodies on Rustaveli Avenue.Irakli Batiashvili was the organizer of the boycott of conscription Georgians into the Soviet army.
From May 2, 1992, to October 11, 1993, Irakli Batiashvili was the Chairman of the Information-Intelligence Service of the Republic of Georgia: under his leadership, was destroyed "Suk" (КГБ - State Security Committee), and the წიგნი: “Irakli Batiashvili”, Tbilisi State University Publishing-house, 0179, Tbilisi, 2021, ISBN 978-9941-491-48-1.|National Intelligence Service of independent Georgia was created. Under his leadership and with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, the best special forces unit "Omega" was formed. He left the position of the chairman of the information-intelligence service with a personal and public statement, as he was against joining Georgia the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1994-1995 he was the head of the Analysis and Prognostication Center. In 1995-1999, he was a member of the Parliament of the 4th Convocation of Georgia (Representative (Majority Vote) of Tbilisi Vake District).
From 1999-2004, he was a member of the Parliament of the 5th Convocation of Georgia with a party list, electoral bloc "Industry will save Georgia". In 2002-2003 — Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Parliament. In 2002, he graduated from the International and Security Special Institution of Higher Education at George Marshall European Center. In 2003, he Implemented the Black Sea Security Program at Harvard University. In 2004-2006, he was a senior researcher at I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
In 2004, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In July 2006, during the crisis related to the Kodori Gorge, Irakli Batiashvili protested the entry of the army into the gorge, and the Georgian authorities arrested him. On May 23, 2007, Irakli Batiashvili was convicted by the Tbilisi City Court under Article 25,315, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Georgian society and international organizations recognized him as a political prisoner. The European Court of Human Rights, in its Judgment of October 10, 2019, determined that the right to a fair trial and the right to freedom and security were violated against Irakli Batiashvili and ordered the state to pay monetary compensation to the victim. In 2007, during his stay in prison, he was elected as an honorary member of the "Georgian Academy". On January 11, 2008, according to decree (ordinance) #14 of the President of Georgia, Irakli Batiashvili was released. Since 2009, he has been giving lectures at various universities. Since 2010, he was a member of the Executive Council of the People's Assembly.
From 2019-2024 (to present), he is a professor at the European University and the invited professor, and lecturer at I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
==Published works==
* ,,A vicious circle” (1994),
* ,,A philosophical epistle from the prison N7” (2007),
* ,,A mined field” (2009),
* ,,The clash of the worlds and the fate of Georgia” (2011),
* ,,A personal life and the Edmund Husserl’s concept of the inner consciousness of time”(2014),
* ,,Martin Heidegger: other way” (2016),
* ,,The Schelling’s Philosophy of Revelation” (2019),
* ,,The existential aspects of the dialectics of ,,Mastery-Servitude” in Hegel’s ,,The Phenomenology of Spirit” (2021),
* ,,The Western political philosophy” (2022),
* ,,The Great Declaration of Independence and Hobbes’s ,,Leviathan” and etc.
Category:1961 births
Category:Scientists from Georgia
Category:Politicians
Category:Philosophers