Learn the Answer to the Question of Being

Nihilism, Life Affirmation, The Eternal Recurrence

From Kant to Hegel

Only A God Can Save Us Now

The Appearance of Self-Consciousness

Im Rausche der Vernunft

Explore the most foundational philosophical work of the West

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the founding document of the study of ethics. Every student of philosophy should have at least some basic understanding and knowledge of the text. We study the most significant passages of this exemplary and foundational text together, so we can gain a profound understanding of its moral themes and also learn to relate its virtue ethics to our own lives.

The Intellectual Life based in leisure reimagined for the 21st Century.

Lecture 1 The Modern and Postmodern challenge to the sacred. The decadent dichotomies of modernity, and the hermeneutics of suspicion from postmodernity. Lecture 2 We will examine the Desmond’s central ideas about the fourfold sense of Being within which we will start to examine his notion of the Between, also called the metaxological , and its connections to transjectivity. realization of Being, transcendence and God. Lecture 3. Desmond, supplemented by the cognitive science of religion, and religion. Here we will explore Desmond’s account of religion and the experience of the divine/sacred. Lecture 4. Desmond and God. We will discuss the relationship in Desmond between transcendence, transjectivity, Desmond is oriented to Christianity but not a Christian.God is not a substance-subject is a relational non-duality. Lecture 5: In order to answer this we will turn to the work Duns who presents Desmond’s philosophy as spiritual exercises within philosophy as a way of life.

Faust. The name, the man. The symbol of infinite human striving and desire for knowledge and insight into the workings of the universe.

This course guides you to a profound understanding of what Heidegger sees as the "essence" of technology.

Stephen Houlgate teaches two lecture seminars on Hegel's Science of Logic. Focussing on Being Nothing Becoming, the processual nature of the Logic, and the Good and Bad Infinite, as well as Hegelian dialectics.

Goethe's Faust Part II is the myth of how we became modern. Faust replaces the myth of Christianity and foretells the story of the Faustian soul coming to itself.