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

In this wide-ranging dialogue Professor Stephen Houlgate and Johannes Niederhauser discuss what it means to lead a Hegelian life — a practice which Houlgate has been enacting for the past forty years of his life. Houlgate was initially drawn more towards Nietzsche but found that with Nietzsche’s philosophy there are severe shortcomings when it comes to precise and clear vision of what institutions and the state are supposed to look like. With Hegel we find such a clear vision spelled out. Even and especially Hegel’s magnum opus the Science of Logic forms part of this vision insofar as here the modern demand of freedom is exercised on the highest level in thought and being. The inherent dialectic in “pure Being” as it unfolds and self-complexifies and depurifies, since it cannot hold on to itself, itself reveals precisely the dialectic of reason. We consider throughout this dialogue what it means to lead a Hegelian ethical life, what proper institutions based on mutual recognition should look like, and how we have not yet truly arrived at Hegel’s philosophy and presuppositionless thought. It is the achievement of Stephen Houlgate of having not only translated the letter but also and especially the spirit of Hegel’s thought into English and the English spirit. Houlgate has furthermore also as one of the first and few about taken seriously and shown why we must take seriously Hegel’s claim to presuppositionless thought after Kant. Halkyon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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