Johannes A. Niederhauser

διὰ τὸ θαυμάζειν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ νῦν καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἤρξαντο φιλοσοφεῖν.Through wonder men began to philosophize, both now and in the beginning.-Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1, 982bThat something is at all! This is the wonder with which philosophy begins. Join me when we again let ourselves into the wonder of existence at my new Plato course: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/plato-republic 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 new experimental video of which there shall be many more. In autumn of 2022 I spent several months in Sicily and also got to travel to Mount Etna. I hiked up the active volcano where legend has it that Empedocles, one of the forefathers of philosophy, threw himself into the element of fire to prove his divinity. Or perhaps Empedocles rather wished for himself to experience the intensity of being and death. In any event myth stands higher than recorded history. And it is upon us to continue the narration of the myth of the future. The footage you can see here I recorded during my two days at Mount Etna. I’m reading from John Burnet’s translation of Empedocles’ fragments. I shall publish more such videos on my YT channel and some also here on Substack. I also recorded an entire lecture course on Plato’s Republic in Athens and Delphi in October 2023. You can find the course here.Image: The Death of Empedocles by Salvator Rosa. Source: Wikipedia. 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 episode I introduce my new course on Plato’s Republic. Seminars for the course begin 20th of January 2024. You can enrol 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comTravel back in time with me to the year I lived and travelled across Canada and the US. First stop Granville Street, Vancouver. I tell the stories of the people I met during my first month in Vancouver, around the warehouses I worked, the musicians I jammed with, the songs I wrote, the car we bought, my first boss who had emigrated from Persia and who c…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comFrancis Bacons’s New Atlantis is a most astounding utopian fable. Published shortly after his death by his former chaplain William Rawley Bacon here lays out the blueprint for the Royal Society — and in fact for the British Empire with its vast spy network. Not only that though. The New Atlantis, albeit unfinished, is a deeply significant fable for it a…

“IN this book is attempted for the first time the venture of predetermining history, of following the still untravelled stages in the destiny of a Culture, and specifically of the only Culture of our time and on our planet which is actually in the phase of fulfilment -the West-Europe an-American.” Thus begins Spengler’s Masterpiece and we are here following him toward the philosophy of the future. You can enrol in our Spengler course here . Seminars begin October 7th 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

Enrol in our Spengler Masterclass 2023 here: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/spengler-the-decline-of-the-west Live seminars begin Saturday October 7th. We meet ten times to figure out what it means to be Faustian. We look forward to meeting you! 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 I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.” - Friedrich Nietzsche We enter into the autumn of this year of this young decade and even younger millennium reading two most autumnal thinkers: Nietzsche and Spengler.We begin with a seminar on Nietzsche’s notion of the Death of the Christian God. You can join the seminar here.And we end the year with a ten week Masterclass on Spengler’s seminal work “The Decline of the West.” You can join the course 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comDr. Filip Niklas and Johannes A. Niederhauser discuss Hegel’s lectures on Aesthetics and the notorious notion of the “end of art.”

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