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Johannes A. NiederhauserIntroducing my New Book: Aristotle's EudaimoniaThe book is available via Amazon:USA UK GermanyI taly France 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/subscribe2025-05-2731 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserGoethe's Faust Enrolment ClosingSave your soul: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/goethe-faust 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/subscribe2025-04-1135 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserGoethe's Faust Part One: An IntroductionJoin my Faust Course: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/goethe-faust Live seminars begin Sunday, April 13th. Use Coupon Code WAGER to take £50 off the seminar tier or £25 off the self-study tier. Only ten coupons available! 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/subscribe2025-04-031h 00
Johannes A. NiederhauserFive Years Young: My Online Philosophy AcademyJoin us today: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/ 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/subscribe2025-03-2322 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserJohn Vervaeke: God and the BetweenIf 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 discussion of transcendence and God.John’s new course begins Wednesday, April 2nd. You can join the course by following this link. Through live lectures, discussions with John and othe...2025-03-2008 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserFighting the Transhumanist Agenda with HumourEwan’s new novel “For Emma” is out on the 28th of March. Website: ewanmorrison.comX: @mrewanmorrisonNovel: For Emma.Amazon UK edition pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/4fdmeha2Waterstones UK edition pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/3z8vahppUS edition: https://tinyurl.com/2n2mn4at 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/subscribe2025-03-182h 13
Johannes A. NiederhauserItalian Futurism Weekend SeminarJoin 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 radical approach to speed, technology, and modernity, and its enduring influence on contemporary art and design.The Italian Futurists envisioned a world of wireless telephones, hard dr...2025-03-1809 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserGod and the Between | with John VervaekeIn 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 from postmodernity, "God and the Between" will offer you insights into life's deep connections and ways out from the (post-)modern predicament.Follow this link to enrol. Th...2025-03-131h 02
Johannes A. NiederhauserFuturist StreamJoin me for my next live video in the app 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/subscribe2025-03-1110 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserItalian Futurism vs. Feeble AccelerationismOn one of the most neglected but most impactful movements of the 20th century. 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/subscribe2025-03-0824 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserHow to write on the great philosophersHere 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/subscribe2025-01-2411 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserBuilding a Philosophical Life OnlineThis 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. 2025-01-0215 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserIs Donald Trump Spengler's Caesar? On the Decline of the WestIs 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/subscribe2024-11-0616 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, How to reach EudaimoniaIn 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...2024-09-291h 14
Johannes A. NiederhauserNietzsche: Nihilism, Death of Christianity, and the Need for Myth | with Ken GemesThis 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…2024-09-2210 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserIntroducing Aristotle's Nicomachean EthicsAristotle’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/subscribe2024-08-2031 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserIntroduction to Hegel's Science of LogicOne 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/subscribe2024-07-2952 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserWill Beauty save the World? On Mass Tourism and Urban LifeSpoiler: 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/subscribe2024-07-2619 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserWhy read PlatoThomas 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/subscr2024-07-2447 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserOn Plato, Beauty, and the Future of Higher EducationWhat 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 full formation of the soul. 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/subscribe2024-07-201h 34
Johannes A. NiederhauserWith Plato against Postmodern NihilismWe 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. We invite you to deepen your understanding of beauty, to remember in the sense of anamnesis what beauty in a primal sense means so as to learn how to...2024-07-0503 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato: Seeing the Forms through BeautyIn 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 philosophy more broadly. So we hope to see you at our upcoming course on Plato on Beauty and Virtue. Here is the...2024-06-281h 24
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato on BeautyOur 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. 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 Goo...2024-06-2802 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato on Beauty and VirtueWe 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. We invite you to deepen your understanding of beauty, to remember in the sense of anamnesis what beauty in a primal sense means so as to le...2024-06-2356 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Dynamics of Power: Foucault, de Jouvenel, Schmitt, Ellul, PlatoIn this conversation we discuss the lasting essence of power that remains in check from Plato to 21st century technocracy. This conversation is part of our series on power which introduces Sean McFadden’s new course on the topic. You may now enrol in our new course via this link. Seminars begin this Sunday, on the 9th of June. 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/subscribe2024-06-051h 20
Johannes A. NiederhauserStudying Philosophy at a Time of Automated ThinkingI’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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-05-1523 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Dynamics of PowerPower is a concept intuitively familiar to everyone. Power incites awe, fear, praise, submission, pain, dominance, and glory. Those who strive to hold power end up being devoured by it.Yet those who do not desire power are most suited to wield it. In some ways, power might be an elusive mystery; an unknown, dark energy that is not fully comprehensible. Since antiquity, many brilliant thinkers have devised explanations and justifications for power and the study of the topic has been approached from a wide range of angles and perspectives.This course journeys into the...2024-05-0841 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserTod und Technik in der Spätphilosophie Martin HeideggersAuf 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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-301h 38
Johannes A. NiederhauserDarkness by Lord ByronIn 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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-2207 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserWhy Kant MattersIf 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 revolutionises the very form of thought itself with his transcendental logic. So without understanding Kant on this level, for example, by assuming that Kant wrote a harmless epistemology, there is little chance to begin to see the thought-movement of modernity from Ka...2024-04-1927 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserKant and the Domination of NatureIn 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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-1827 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe True project of Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonThe 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 episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-04-0957 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserKant's First CritiqueThe 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 philosophy is indispensable. For it is precisely by transcendental logic that flying airplanes becomes possible. In honour of Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday in April 2024 we are offering a 9 week Masterclass on his Cri...2024-04-011h 07
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato in Borges' GardenStep into the maze of temporal dimensions. 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/subscribe2024-03-2903 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Starry Heavens Above Me 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/subscribe2024-03-2001 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserBergson's crude misreading of KantIt 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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe2024-03-1320 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserJohn Vervaeke: Ultimate Reality — God and BeyondDive 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-and-beyond-vervaeke 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/subscribe2024-03-0851 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserEmerson: The Over-Soul | The Whiskey LecturesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn 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. 2024-02-2755 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Cambridge Platonists | with Douglas HedleyThe 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. Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge, lays out the lasting significance of legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. Douglas’ book can be found here.Yo...2024-01-1758 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Importance of PhilosophyPhilosophy shall be the Queen of the Arts and Sciences once more! 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/subscribe2024-01-0412 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato on the Wonder of Philosophyδιὰ 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/subscribe2024-01-0242 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserEmpedocles at Mount EtnaA 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...2023-12-3007 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserPlato's Republic - 2024 Course IntroductionIn 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/subscribe2023-12-1048 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserVancouver Diaries #1: ArrivingThis 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…2023-12-0310 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserEsoterica #1 Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"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…2023-11-2317 min
Dr. John VervaekeHeidegger's Being and Time w/ Johaness NiederhauserDr. John Vervaeke and Johannes Niederhauser delve deep into the complex and intricate philosophy of Martin Heidegger. They cover a range of topics that unveil the nuances of 'being' and 'time', pulling from Heidegger's seminal work, "Being and Time," to shed light on contemporary questions of existence, meaning, and wisdom. With Niederhauser's specialized background in Heideggerian philosophy and Vervaeke's multi-disciplinary approach, the duo explores the limitations of traditional metaphysics, the crisis in philosophy, and the nature of time, all within the larger quest for cultivating wisdom. They bring a fresh lens to examine how phenomenology, metaphysics, and ontological questions...2023-11-031h 34
Johannes A. NiederhauserSpengler: Poetic History of the Future“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 discus...2023-09-3057 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Destiny of Faustian Man - and of BitcoinEnrol 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/subscribe2023-09-2551 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserOn Spengler and Nietzsche“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. 2023-09-1748 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserHegel's "Aesthetics" and the End of Art | with Dr. Filip NiklasThis 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.” 2023-09-1011 min
Marketplace DiscussionsPhilosophy in the Marketplace | Johannes A. NiederhauserBio:
Johannes is founder and leader of the Halkyon Thinkers Guild. The Guild invites all those who seek along the path towards new realms of thought.
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Johannes A. NiederhauserSpengler's "Decline of the West" is not what you thinkYou can join our Spengler Masterclass 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/subscribe2023-09-0747 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserNietzsche "God is Dead!"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 join here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod...2023-09-061h 00
Johannes A. NiederhauserNietzsche on Nihilism, Life Affirmation and the ÜbermenschThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comHow can we affirm life in the face of the death of God and nihilism?2023-08-0910 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserSpengler's The Decline of the WestThis 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/spengler-the-decline-of-the-west 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/subscribe2023-07-3159 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserPhilosophy of Cybernetics Online Course - Baudrillard, McLuhan, Stiegler, Deleuze, HanWe live today under the spell of cybernetics. If we are to be masters of our machines, we must first understand the meaning of mechanics, cybernetics, and the philosophy of computers. ‘Spiritual Cybernetics’ is, I propose, the spiritual animation of computers and information systems, in which the ‘spirit’ of computers is the free ‘steering’ of human and more-than-human users, and such use is free insofar as it knows how to use its tools for its own ends. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...2023-07-1656 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserSpiritual CyberneticsThe digital revolution is undoubtedly the most disruptive technological shift in the history of mankind. The internet, combined with advances in computational powers, has also profoundly affected and altered human behaviour. This difference is what makes the disruptive nature of digital particularly interesting to study. It is precisely because the penetration of digital technologies runs so deep into our daily lives, and because its ability to manipulate, control and distort is so complete, that the digital revolution now calls for a creative theological and philosophical responses. We live today under the spell of cybernetics. If we are to...2023-07-0835 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Whiskey Lectures #3: Emerson's Essay "History"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comIn this final episode I conclude my reading and commentary of Emerson’s essay “History.”“A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.” - Emerson 2023-07-0214 min
Johannes A. Niederhauser"Beyond Nihilism" - Introduction with John VervaekeProf. John Vervaeke joins Johannes Niederhauser to introduce his new course “Beyond Nihilism.”John has developed the course exclusively for Halkyon Academy, which Johannes founded in 2020. Enrolment for John’s course is now open. You can learn more about Halkyon 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/subscribe2023-06-1030 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserHeidegger vs. Deleuze on TechnologyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.com2023-06-0721 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserTolstoy: What is Art?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comChris and Johannes discuss Tolstoy’s seminal but little known essay “What is Art?” 2023-05-3106 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Guild as a Model for Higher EducationJosh Hochschild and Johannes discuss their ideas around the medieval guild of scholars as a model for today's university. Johannes is the founder of the Halkyon Guild (founded in 2020) which offers philosophy courses and a wider community of learners. You can learn about Halkyon here. You can find our online courses on teachable. 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/subscribe2023-05-291h 06
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Whiskey Lectures #2: Emerson, Memory, Apollo, and American Frontier SpiritThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comImage: Guido Reni “Aurora”, in public domain. Source: Wiki Commons2023-05-2215 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserHeidegger, Being and Time, Curiosity, Vision and Teaching | with Seth BinstedThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comSeth and Johannes discuss §36 on curiosity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time2023-05-1921 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Philosophy of The MachineYou can now enrol in our new course on the Philosophy of the Machine 2023! Please follow this link: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/philosophy-of-the-machine The course officially kicks off May 14th, 2023. Learn what the Machine means for and if and how we can stay human! When you enrol you get 8 exclusive video and audio lectures plus downloadable presentation slides. Your lecturer Seán McFadden is a philosopher and Max-Planck-Institute affiliated scientist working. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...2023-05-011h 27
Johannes A. NiederhauserThe Whiskey Lectures #1: Emerson's "History" Part IThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit halkyon.substack.comI’m reading from Emerson’s essay “History,” in which the English word history is cast into its nativity and the true scope of its significance shines forth. I’m drinking a Woodford Reserve Kentucky Whiskey.2023-04-2514 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserHegel: With what must Science Begin?This is part of a series on Hegel’s philosophy in the run-up to Filip’s Hegel Masterclass 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/subscribe2023-04-211h 05
Johannes A. NiederhauserBaudrillard: Simulacra & SimulationJoin our Baudrillard Seminar 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/subscribe2023-04-1648 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserIntroduction to Hegel MasterclassYou can enrol in our Hegel Masterclass 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/subscribe2023-04-1548 min
Johannes A. NiederhauserOffice Hour with Dr. NiederhauserEnrol in Baudrillard Seminar 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/subscribe2023-04-151h 09
Philosophy PortalDeath and World Grounding (w/ Johannes A. Niederhauser)Johannes A. Niederhauser argues that death is a central notion in Martin Heidegger’s work on the questions being and time, and even takes us to the core of Heidegger's entire thinking path. Thus, Heidegger is not merely approaching death as an existentialist problem, of how to become authentically mortal. Heidegger is suggesting that the abstract concealment and exploitation of death is how the modern project attempts to bring in and enforce a different way of being human, an inhuman way of being human. This is achieved via the exclusive absolutization of technical knowledge, which would perceive everything, even death...2021-12-302h 05
Classical PhilosophyDo we live in a simulation? On Plato's TimaiosPresumably one of the weirdest dialogues from Plato. Do we live in a simulation? What is the relationship between Athens and Atlantis? Who or what created the kosmos? I’m a free scholar. It is your generous contributions that make my work possible. Huge thanks to all my supporters! Support me via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/janiederhauser Enrol in one of my courses here https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/ Gift Bitcoin: 3JimXYdoLVPWVEtk3tPtiYcLqQsFmS5KmH Copyright: Johannes Achill Niederhauser2021-10-2228 min
Challenging TimeEpisode 2 - Philosophy & Truth with Johannes NiederhauserAsk not what you can do with philosophy, but what philosophy can do with you! In this episode, I discuss life from Plato's Cave from a philosophical perspective with Johannes Niederhauser. We discuss, among other things, Heidegger's Essay Plato's Doctrine of Truth.
A superficial reading of Plato's Cave might suggest that there are two worlds, and that the truth is something out there to be found like an island out in the ocean (or like a sun-drenched paradise outside the cave). But is that really the case? Heidegger puts forward a radically different interpretation than...2021-01-051h 13
Other LifeCan We Escape? On Deleuze and Heidegger with Johannes NiederhauserJoin our 8-week seminar series on Deleuze and Heidegger, starting this Sunday, November 22.✦ Get the reading list and learn more: otherlife.co/deleuze-vs-heidegger➡️ Johannes Niederhauser on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohannesAchill➡️ Johannes Niederhauser on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsQqlrzoc-K32DE-Wh-roA2020-11-171h 21
Classical PhilosophyAbandon All Hope In Order To Enter. In Dialogue with Ivo De GennaroIn this dialogue Ivo De Gennaro and Johannes Niederhauser discuss Ivo's new book "Principles of Philosophy" and what the future of philosophy might be.
Ivo De Gennaro is professor of philosophy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
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Ivo's book offers a phenomenologically informed reading of some fundamental positions of the philosophical tradition. Its objective is not that of giving an exhaustive account of the thinking of any single philosopher, much less...2020-10-292h 09Classical PhilosophyNietzsche: The Eternal RecurrenceIn this lecture I argue that the eternal recurrence of the same is Nietzsche's response to nihilism.
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Huge thanks to all my Patreon supporters! me on Patreon! It's because of you that I can do this https://www.patreon...2020-09-231h 12Classical PhilosophyHeidegger: "Death is the Utmost Testimonial of Being"The Coming Renaissance Series continues with a lecture on Heidegger's notion of the "other beginning". Perhaps quite timely now to think of the possibility of another beginning.
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2020-09-2048 minClassical PhilosophyHeidegger and the Other BeginningHuge thanks to all our Patreon supporters for making my work possible! Consider becoming one: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphilosophy Support on PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com2020-09-1730 minClassical PhilosophyThe Machine Stops. A Parable For Our Times.In this video I read E.M. Forster's most prescient short story "The Machine Stops". This short story is our version of Plato's Cave. Human beings are reduced to lumps of flesh constantly on the lookout for ideas to affect them. This is also a warning for all those engaged in "online philosophy" or however we want to refer to it. For we must not become masters of shadows.
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Support me via PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com Support The...2020-09-1529 minClassical Philosophy"Wisdom is a Habit" On Education with Josh HochschildIn our second conversation Josh and I discuss his ideas around the medieval guild of scholars as a model for today's university. As some of you might know I started building the Halkyon Guild early on in 2020 precisely for this reason. You can learn more about my guild here: https://www.halkyonguild.org/
Josh had tweeted the following which prompted me to invite him on to discuss the issue further: "The bureaucratic and technocratic mindset is at the root of so much of higher ed’s problems. We should stop referring to it as a “business” mental...2020-09-141h 06Classical PhilosophyNietzsche on "Leisure and Idleness". Reading §329 of the Gay ScienceIn this video I'm reading a significant passage of Nietzsche's Gay Science. You can find the passage in the 4th book under §329. The passage concerns itself with the loss of true otium in the modern world.
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What does Amor Fati really mean? Does it just mean to accept our fates and be stoic? Or is there something else at stake? Time itself and its movement are at stake when we understand that amor fati is deeply connected to the eternal recurrence of the same.
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Huge thanks to all my Patreon supporters! me on Patreon...2020-09-1310 minClassical PhilosophyHeidegger on Hölderlin Kierkegaard NietzscheIn this lecture I read and interpret §105 of Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy". There Heidegger lays out some ground questions we have to face if we wish to overturn the meaning crisis and get beyond the madness of subjectivity at its utmost maximum.
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Support me via PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com Support The Halkyon Thinkers Guild https://www.halkyonguild.org/ 2020-09-1111 minClassical PhilosophyKant and "The Murderer At the Door"Ever since its publication in 1797 On the Supposed Right to Lie from Benevolent Motives (SRL) has sparked outrage and confusion not only amongst those who oppose Kant’s approach to ethics. The crucial question for all those broadly interested in Kantian ethics—either to defend or to defeat it—is whether Kant’s moral system is, as laid out in the Groundwork, thus rigid that it demands of moral agents rather to betray a friend than to lie a (potential) murderer. The problem, however, of that debate is the ignorance of Kant’s distinction between lying in the ethical and in the...2020-09-1054 minClassical PhilosophyThe Beginning of Hegel's "Science of Logic". A Conversation with Filip NiklasIn this conversation Filip Niklas and Johannes Niederhauser discuss the opening passage of Hegel's Science of Logic - being, nothing, and becoming.
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Sign up for updates on our upcoming online course on Nietzsche: https://www.halkyonguild.org/thus-spoke-nietzsche2020-09-0723 minClassical PhilosophyThe Apocalypse of the SubjectHuge thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making my work possible! Consider becoming one: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphilosophy Support me on PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com2020-09-0633 minClassical PhilosophyClassical Philosophy Podcast: Tolstoy "What is Art?"Huge thanks to all my Patreon supporters! Consider becoming one: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphilosophy
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Tolstoy's essay "What is Art?" is rarely known but presents a serious challenge to most, if not all, aesthetic theory. If we follow Tolstoy, then also most of modern art is not art at all. In this podcast we discuss the strengths of Tolstoy's clear vision for what art is supposed to do.2020-09-0526 minClassical PhilosophyPlato's "Republic": Books 1-5In this podcast Chris of Norwich and Johannes discuss the first five books of a truly foundational work of European thinking: Plato's "Politeia". Rather than focussing too much on the alleged "perfect state" the dialogue focusses on the ways of thinking Plato here outlines.
Huge thanks to all my Patreon supporters! Consider becoming one: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphilosophy Support via PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com2020-09-032h 24Classical PhilosophyNietzsche on the True Meaning of the ClassicalNietzsche's notion of the Grand Style (der Große Stil) can only be understood in relation to his critique of the Romantics and his appreciation of the truly Classical.
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Here is my talk on the Apocalypse of the Subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIXHycBgTGA&list=PLeKqw0EgTxge7zdP_MKpzWf0o5nMDj9Vy&index=9
2020-09-0329 minClassical PhilosophyOn Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" and NihilismIn this lecture I argue that Nietzsche stumbles upon the profundity of nihilism through his critique of the Christian moral hypothesis. Nihilism is the uncanniest guest of Europe and must be overcome by striding through it. The topic of Beyond Good and Evil then is nihilism and suffering and possible ways out of nihilism.
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Become my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphil...Support me on PayPal: j.niederhauser@me.com Support The Halkyon Thinkers Guild https://www.halkyonguild.org/2020-03-2650 minClassical Philosophy"Art as Consolation" A Conversation with Andrew HuddlestonIn this conversation Andrew Huddleston and Johannes Achill Niederhauser discuss some of the main themes of Andrew's current book project on art as religion and consolation. In this wide-ranging dialogue Andrew introduces the main topics of his book and shows how there seems to be in most artforms - even in the late 20th century - something of an echo of the sacred. Andrew is a Reader at Birkbeck College London. Andrew's website: http://www.achuddleston.com/ Thank you kindly for your support Become a Patreon of Classical Philosohy: https://www.patreon.com/classicalphil...Support us via...2020-03-261h 05
HypervelocityHeidegger and the Uncanny with Johannes NiederhauserFor my debut podcast I’m delighted to have with me Johannes Niederhauser PhD. Johannes is a Heidegger scholar, currently teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College and will soon publish his first book on Heidegger’s phenomenology of death. Johannes is also the impresario of the Dead Philsophers Club, which he hosts at the Library Members club in London. Please check out his fascinating lectures and interviews at Classical Philosophy on youtube, Instagram and Patreon.
In today’s discussion, Johannes and I explore Heidegger’s statement in The Thing that in the modern age, ‘the frantic abolition of distance b...2019-12-1441 min
Other LifeHeidegger, Ecstatic Time, and the Community of Mortals with Johannes NiederhauserJohannes Niederhauser recently completed his PhD at Warwick University for a dissertation entitled, "Heidegger on Death and Being." Check out his Youtube channel here. Johannes says his dissertation is on Heidegger's entire philosophy but death is the key to his thought. I hung out with Johannes in London recently and his takes on Heidegger are very germane to my own interests, so it was a no-brainer to invite him on the show. We will discuss what Heidegger's philosophy & problematic life have to teach us about the critique of linear time, an alternative conception of ecstatic time, Exit...2019-06-152h 37