Empyreon Academy

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m  Ivan , a PhD candidate in philosophy. “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” With these words,  Immanuel Kant  reminds us that morality stands next to the infinite. But do we really have a  moral law  within us? Raskolnikov , in...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m  Ivan , a PhD candidate in philosophy. “I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man.” — Dostoevsky. “I was the rotten fruit of a rotten land.” — Miller. Two writers, two worlds — Russia and America — but the same wound: a  spiritual disease . Both men begin their redemption with a  confession . For Dostoevsky, the illness lives ...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m  Ivan , a PhD candidate in philosophy. „If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?“ For  Berkeley , to be is to be perceived — no perception, no world. But  Kant  turns this upside down: without an external world,  we couldn’t even be aware of ourselves . Today: 🌿 Berkeley’s idealism. ⚔️ The cr...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m  Ivan , a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. Today we turn to  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  — a philosopher famous for his complexity, yet here, he does something unexpected: he declares himself an  enemy of abstract thinking . In his short essay  “Who Thinks Abstractly?” , Hegel flips our assum...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m  Ivan , a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. Today, we turn to  Leo Tolstoy  and his  Gospel in Brief  — a radical return to the teachings of Christ, stripped of dogma and ritual. For Tolstoy, Christianity isn’t divine mystery or church tradition; it’s a  way of life  that gives meaning to existen...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I'm Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. Over 2000 years of tradition, built slowly, step by step, through a deep exchange between the greatest minds of history. And then suddenly one day,  he doesn't agree. That 'he' is  Immanuel Kant , and the disagreement is a revolution. As K...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I'm Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In the eternal darkness, the crow, unable to find any food, longed for light, and the earth was illumined. This is an ancient Eskimo story that explains the origin of light, and one of the most underestimated philosophers of the past century,  Simone...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I'm Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this episode, we're diving into the work of  Martin Heidegger  and his radical challenge to the modern world: the critical state of the relationship between  Science and Philosophy . His proposed solution? A complete rethinking of the concept o...

Welcome to Empyreon Academy, a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I'm Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this episode, we'll dive into the work of  Friedrich Nietzsche  and his most profound challenge to our existence:  The Eternal Return . This concept isn't just a thought experiment; it's a radical test of how much you truly love your life. Imagine a demo...

Welcome to Empyreon Academy, a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this episode, we'll dive into the work of  Søren Kierkegaard , a revolutionary thinker who faced the profound crisis of the 19th century with a simple yet powerful response:  "Truth is subjectivity." We'll explore how Kierkegaard’s idea...

Welcome to Empyreon Academy, a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this episode, I want to explore one of the most significant intellectual shifts in history:  Immanuel Kant's Copernican Revolution in philosophy. We'll look at the key ideas that reshaped our understanding of knowledge, science, and even the worl...

Welcome to Empyreon Academy, a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this episode, I want to explore a question central to our existence:  What does it mean to be a man? To help us find an answer, we’ll look to two profound authors and their timeless insights: Elio Vittorini's  Men and Not Men  — a reflection on how v...

Welcome to  Empyreon Academy , a podcast for lovers of wisdom and life. I’m Ivan, a PhD candidate in philosophy and founder of Empyreon Academy. In this first episode, I share the three essential books that I believe anyone should read when beginning their philosophical journey: Plato’s  Symposium  — a dialogue on love that reveals the very meaning of philosophy. Descartes’  Discourse on the Metho...