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.
Im Rausche der Vernunft
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.
The Appearance of Self-Consciousness
Learn the Answer to the Question of Being
Only A God Can Save Us Now
From Kant to Hegel
Philosophy as the Art of Living
Overcoming Nihilism
Power is an idea that everybody is familiar with. Or so it seems. Power incites awe, fear, praise, submission, pain, dominance, and glory. Those who strive for it end up being devoured by it. Those who do not desire power, are most suited to wield it. In many ways, power represents an elusive mystery, an unknown dark energy, not fully comprehended. Since antiquity, many brilliant thinkers have given explanations and justifications for power. A wide range of angles and perspectives can be employed in order to study power. This course journeys through the works of the most profound thinkers of power. Once completed, all conventional illusions pertaining to power shall be shattered so that we can see it for it really is.
Explore the most foundational philosophical work of the West
with the Halkyon Guild, we will explore six platonic dialogues with a particular focus to contemplate upon the beautiful and virtue. The six dialogues we will read together are: Greater Hippias Symposium Phrades Meno Cratylus Parmenides. I have structured the course in such a manner so as we read these dialogues we will circumscribe the following considerations: We start with Greater Hippias with the typical elenchus method of knocking down the sophist Hippias’s particular examples of the Beautiful and Socrates’s hypothetical replies to what is the definition of the Beautiful. In fact, from the exchanges between Hippias and Socrates, the connection between predicates and their subjects begin to untether. From Symposium, we explore what love is as a predicate and how beauty interacts with love, in words spoken by Socrates, “to behold true realities which nourish true virtue.”
The Intellectual Life based in leisure reimagined for the 21st Century.
Nihilism, Life Affirmation, The Eternal Recurrence