Johannes A. Niederhauser

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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 discu...

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Join my Italian Futurism seminar today: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/italian-futurism March 29&30 , 5-8pm UK time "We want to sing the love of danger! We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world!" Examine the most underrated but most far-reaching an avantgarde art movement of the 20th century — that made your world! Futurism revolutionised aesthetics and culture, exploring its r...

In his 8-week course, John Vervaeke will bring together William Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being which will lead us into a discussion of transcendence, Platonism, and God. Many thinkers will be addressed such as Charles Taylor, John Caputo, Plato, William Desmond. If you find yourself lost because of the decadent dichotomies of modernity, and the hermeneutics of suspicion...

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On one of the most neglected but most impactful movements of the 20th century. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

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 would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.com In 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 would like to...

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...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.com It 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 she...

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 would like to...

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...

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 would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

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 would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

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. T...

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...

We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic. In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, in the eye of the beholder. But for Plato beauty is ontological and integral to his entire philosophy. Without beauty we cannot see the Idea of the Good — and vice versa. Thus, for Plato beauty is also intimately related to virtue and the Good Life....

In this wide-ranging conversation Thomas Jockin and yours truly converse around the importance of beauty in Plato’s philosophy. We bring in Aristotle’s nous and potentiality to make us see that yes it is possible to see the forms, to see the ideas in the medium of the Beautiful. We also emphasise that studying the Beautiful in Plato is one of the best ways to be introduced to Plato and thus philos...

Our new Plato course is now officially open for enrolment! Join our summer school today and rethink what you thought you knew about beauty.  We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic. In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, in the eye of the beholder. But for Plato beauty is ontological and integral to his entire philosophy. Withou...

We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic. In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, in the eye of the beholder. But for Plato beauty is ontological and integral to his entire philosophy. Without beauty we cannot see the Idea of the Good — and vice versa. Thus, for Plato beauty is also intimately related to virtue and the Good Life....

I’m here reading an essay by my friend Max Gottschlich, an Austrian philosopher teaching in Linz. Here is a link to the essay . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

Auf Einladung von Max Gottschlich hielt ich am 25.4.2024 an der Katholischen Privatuniversität Linz einen Vortrag zu Tod und Technik in der Spätphilosophie Martin Heideggers. Sie finden hier weitere Aufnahmen aus der Vortragsreihe Zeit zu Denken: https://ku-linz.at/philosophie/veranstaltungen_am_fachbereich_philosophie/veranstaltungen/vortragsreihe_zeit_zu_denken This is a public episode. If you w...