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24:58

Italian Futurism vs. Feeble Accelerationism

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2025/03/08

On 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/subscribe

11:53

How to write on the great philosophers

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2025/01/24

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

15:32

Building a Philosophical Life Online

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2025/01/02

This 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.

16:04

Is Donald Trump Spengler's Caesar? On the Decline of...

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/11/06

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

74:56

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, How to reach Eudaimonia

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/09/29

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 start October 12th. You find all details on seminar dates and enrolment options on the course page. The

10:14

Nietzsche: Nihilism, Death of Christianity, and the...

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/09/22

This 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…

31:34

Introducing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/08/20

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

102:11

Stephen Houlgate: A Hegelian Life

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/08/08

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 and the state are supposed to look like. With Hegel we find such a clear vision spelled out. Even and

52:17

Introduction to Hegel's Science of Logic

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/07/29

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

19:58

Will Beauty save the World? On Mass Tourism and Urban...

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/07/26

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

47:58

Why read Plato

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/07/24

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

94:33

On Plato, Beauty, and the Future of Higher Education

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/07/20

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 full formation of the soul. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other

3:20

With Plato against Postmodern Nihilism

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/07/05

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. We invite you to deepen your understanding of beauty, to remember in the sense of anamnesis what beauty

84:07

Plato: Seeing the Forms through Beauty

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/06/28

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 philosophy more broadly. So we hope to see you at our upcoming course on Plato on Beauty and Virtue. Here is

2:57

Plato on Beauty

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/06/28

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. Without beauty we cannot see the Idea of the Good — and vice versa. Thus, for Plato beauty is also intimately

56:45

Plato on Beauty and Virtue

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/06/23

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The Dynamics of Power: Foucault, de Jouvenel,...

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/06/05

In 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/subscribe

23:28

Studying Philosophy at a Time of Automated Thinking

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/05/15

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit halkyon.substack.com/subscribe

41:36

The Dynamics of Power

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/05/08

Power 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

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Tod und Technik in der Spätphilosophie Martin Heideggers

Johannes A. Niederhauser ·

2024/04/30

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'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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