Johannes A. Niederhauser

Here is a link to my Intellectual Life Course which addresses these and other issues: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/the-intellectual-life 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn this wide-ranging conversation Mahmoud and I discuss our experiences thus far in building online philosophy schools and more generally what it means to read philosophy slowly in an age of acceleration. Follow Mahmoud on formerly Twitter. Here is a link to Mahmoud’s book.

Is Trump the Caesarian figure Spengler predicted? The man who breaks the rule of Money and its form of government, democracy? My analysis. Just so there is no confusion: The Ceasarian figure arises in the time of decline, is a symptom of decline rather than an antidote or even reversal. Enrol in our course on Spengler’s The Decline of the West 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 lecture I introduce Aristotle’s definition of eudaimonia, usually translated as happiness or the good life, and also his distinction between action and production. How we can reach eudaimonia in ethical life is the focus of this lecture and also of my upcoming course on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, which you may enrol in now. Here is the link to my new Aristotle course. Live seminars start October 12th. You find all details on seminar dates and enrolment options on the course page. The main video and audio lectures have already been uploaded so you can start straight away. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIt was my distinct honour to be able to sit down with Prof Ken Gemes at his abode for a dialogue on the interweaving manias that is modernity, of which there is perhaps no sharper a diagnostician than Nietzsche. Nietzsche tried, perhaps unsuccessfully thus far, to get his readers, posthumously born as we are, to shed ourselves from Christianity, which t…

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is usually read as the foundational text of so-called Virtue Ethics. That is fair enough. However, the text itself also harbours deeper layers that have been with us in the European trajectory, the main one being the distinction between theoria and praxis, which I address here and in my course on the Nicomachean Ethics. 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

One hour freestyle lecture on the most important philosophy book of the past two centuries. If you have never heard of the Science of Logic — you are an in for a wild ride. Nietzsche is an altar boy compared to what Hegel here does with NOTHINGNESS. 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

Spoiler: No, it won’t. Beauty will destroy the world, if anything. The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Even better than the real thing? 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

Thomas was recently asked by one of his students at his Plato course why read Plato at all. It’s a fair question. Why read an old thinker if his “theories” are already obvious and known to everyone anyways. Well, precisely because in reading we engage in the hermeneutic exercise of disclosing the world, of establishing a relationship with the past which may open up the future for us differently. 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

What is the main difference between legacy institutions of higher learning and the newly emerging online first digital schools? In this dialogue Thomas Jockin and Johannes Niederhauser try and show how the so-called planetary university is increasingly a stifling environment and, evoking Plato and Aristotle, they try to provide possible ways of truly enriching education that ultimately aims at the full formation of the soul. 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