Johannes A. Niederhauser

In light of the advent of “AI” slop taking over the virtual space, hyperfinancialisation driving the simulacrum, and all out schizophrenic ideologised insanity it is high time we begin to grasp what technology really is. Download the syllabus for my new course on Heidegger’s philosophy of technology here This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

In this video I read from John Gray’s “The Immortalisation Commission”. The book is an important document to help us trace the transhumanist worldview which seems as old as modernity itself. As old as modern science and modernity. Beginning with Francis Bacon's fever dream of building a new temple of Salomon in The New Atlantis, to Victorian England, Marxism, and Bolshevism — The order of the Unnatural goes back centuries. This worldview stems from latent Christianity and its promise of salvation as well as from revealed Abrahamic religion more generally, the apocalypse as a necessary event to establish the New Jerusalem (utopia) must also occur. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

In this video lecture I’m reading from my book on Eudaimonia in Aristotle. If yYou can purchase my book here. You may also be interested in our new course on “Health & Virtue: A Journey to Well-Being with Plato and Aristotle”. You find the course enrolment page here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that university administrators and their 19th century social-Darwinian ideology are to blame for the destruction of Humanities degrees at American colleges. I present here a critical reading of the article and outline what I see is really the driving force behind the destruction of the Humanities and why the Planetary University is a lost cause anyways. While universities are slashing philosophy and literature degrees, philosophia is alive and well at my Halkyon Academy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you for listening! Here is a link to join Thomas’ unique course on Health and Virtue: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/philosophy-of-health-ancient-wisdom Use the coupon code HEALTH at the checkout to take 20% off any tier.May you flourish. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

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If you find yourself lost because of the decadent dichotomies of modernity, and the hermeneutics of suspicion from postmodernity, "God and the Between" will offer you insights into life's deep connections and ways out from the (post-)modern predicament.In this 8-week course, John Vervaeke will bring together Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being which will lead us into a discussion of transcendence and God.John’s new course begins Wednesday, April 2nd. You can join the course by following this link. Through live lectures, discussions with John and other participants, and guided readings we will explore how William Desmond’s philosophy can show us paths to strong transcendence and the sacred in a secular age and how transformation is possible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe