Reborn in Florence

Published 18 days ago • 1 min read

I just returned from a weekend in Florence where I recorded the lectures for my new course on Philosophy as the Art of Living.

I had been thinking about a course like this at least since my days at a London university where I taught a course of that same name, but where, alas!, the curriculum did not teach students how to live the good life. The course was just another broad introductory course to the history of philosophy with a fancier title. The curriculum was set by the department. But with my freedom at Halkyon I have now been able to put together exactly the sort of course I wish there could have been at my university when I was a student.

I went to Florence for the recordings because it is the most important city of Renaissance. It is where the European Spirit was reborn and rediscovered its roots in the forms and myths of Ancient Athens and Rome.

With this course, on much smaller scale naturally, I wish to contribute to such a rebirth as well bringing together and into thinkers from 2500 years of the history of ideas to arrive at a playful fresh answer of what it means to be human.

Feel free to download the syllabus following the link. The course will be available for self-guided study in a couple of weeks. And feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested in such a course.

Art of Living Syllabus

Kind regards,

Johannes A. Niederhauser
Founder of Halkyon Academy

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