Johannes A. Niederhauser

In honour of Lord Byron's bicentenary I read his masterful vision of the future, "Darkness". He knew, Byron knew. May you rest in Peace, Lord Byron. 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

If there’s ever been one most important philosopher in modernity it is Immanuel Kant. Whatever your interests in modern philosophy — be it Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, even Nietzsche and Baudrillard and especially Accelerationism — you will not understand the full scope of their respective philosophies without having before grasped Kant!  This is because Kant rev...

In this lecture I address the true scope of the Copernican Turn and why it is that with Kant we lose access to nature. We will discuss all this and more at my upcoming Kant course . 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

The common misconceptions about Kant’s First Critique are 1) that it is an epistemology and 2) that Kant combines rationalism and empiricism. But he does neither. In fact, Kant refutes both empiricism and rationalism — and had he written something as benign as an epistemology he would not have achieved the revolution of thought. I hope you can join me at my upcoming Kant course . This is a public...

The publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was an earth-shattering moment. Not only was reason and its presuppositions seriously critiqued for the first time. The Kantian revolution also firmly placed the human mind in the centre of cognition ensuring the validity of formal logic and scientific findings before any experience. If you wish to gain an understanding of our age, Kant’s critical...

Step into the maze of temporal dimensions. 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 public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com

It is rather incredible how revered Bergson is given his crude misreading of Kant. In this talk I take diagnose this misreading and also show where Bergson’s “philosophy” has led. If you’d like to read Kant with me this year, follow this link . 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

Dive into an illuminating exploration of divine existence and the nature of the cosmos, gaining insights into philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives on the profound question of what lies at the foundation of all that is. Live lectures and seminars begin Friday, April 5th. You can now register for John's new course here: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/ultimate-reality-god-a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.com In the true spirit of com-mentare, of thinking along with, I read here Emerson’s magnificent and wondrous essay. Thank you for listening, reading and thinking along.

The Cambridge Platonists are today largely forgotten. But they were hugely influential during their time and especially also on the development of German Idealism. They opposed the burgeoning materialism and mechanism (and thus atheism) of their time but also Cartesian dualism. Instead, they proposed a metaphysics of spirit which saw the cosmos as enlivened. In this lively conversation Prof. Dougl...

Philosophy shall be the Queen of the Arts and Sciences once more! 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

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, 982b That 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...

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...

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 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 Travel 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 w...

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

“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....

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

“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 wi...

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

You can join our Spengler Masterclass here. 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

In this conversation Prof. Ken Gemes lays out his understanding of Nietzsche’s notorious proclamation that the Christian God is dead and what that means morally for the age to come. This age to come Nietzsche refers to as the age of nihilism which will be with us for “the next 200 years. We are living right in the middle of it.” Ken is teaching a seminar on Nietzsche in September which you can joi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.com How can we affirm life in the face of the death of God and nihilism?

This fall we face our destiny head on. What does it mean to be Faustian? What does it mean to be born of the Occident in its final phase? How can we understand ourselves and others outside Eurocentric universalism? What will the world look like when we escape the spectre of progressivism? Join us this October at our Spengler Masterclass. Download the syllabus here: https://www.halkyonguild.org/spe...