Does politics merely govern society—or does it also define the boundaries of what we can think of as true, real, and possible? When we speak of metaphysics, we often imagine it as something above everyday politics: a realm of pure concepts and timeless questions about being, truth, and causality. Yet the history of philosophy and science suggests the opposite—that even the most abstract ideas are born within very concrete social and political power relations.

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From Plato’s ontology shaped by the crisis of Athenian democracy, through medieval metaphysics under the umbrella of a theological–political order, to the mechanistic worldview accompanying the rise of the modern state and capitalism—each era produces a metaphysics conditioned by politics. Did the idea of “natural law,” as well as the notion of objective, neutral science, emerge alongside the need to legitimize a particular social order? And if so, what does that tell us about the truths we consider unquestionable today?

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In the contemporary age, where politics penetrates algorithms, biotechnology, and cosmology, the question is no longer whether politics influences metaphysics, but how deeply. Do today’s theories of consciousness, identity, free will, or even the multiverse reflect reality—or rather the metaphysical needs of the global political-economic system? Can philosophy and science ever truly exist outside the political paradigm of their time?

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If the fundamental social relations of an era create the ground on which its philosophical and scientific structures grow, then discussing metaphysics is not an academic luxury—it is a political act. In this sense, this Agora is not a conversation about abstract concepts, but about the invisible assumptions that shape our reality.