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🌞 Enrolment Just Opened – And Half the Seats for The Odyssey Course Are Already Gone! 🌊 The journey is starting. I’m really excited to share that enrolment for my new course on Homer’s The Odyssey is now open — and in just a few hours, half the seats have already been taken. Over 5 weeks starting July 11, we’ll sail with Odysseus through one of the greatest stories ever told. A text I read in Ancient Greek for the first time when I was 16 and that I’ve returned to again and again. We’ll explore courage in the face of impossible odds, what it really means to find your way home, the pull of temptation, loyalty, identity, and all the messy beauty of being human. There will be no stuffy lectures or prior knowledge needed. Just a love for great stories and a willingness to reflect on how this ancient epic still are so close to home in our own lives. Secure your seat here: halkyonacademy.teachable.com… Every one of us is on some kind of odyssey. The real question is whether we’ll have the wisdom and heart to finish it. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to read this text, this is it.

Come join the last bastion of reason @HalkyonGuild where we read only the primary texts and in their entirety, without childish things like quizzes and multiple choice tests.

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of the most foundational works of Western Ethics and Moral Philosophy. In it we learn how to enact our highest virtue so as to fulfil our rational potential which allows us to become good citizens of the polis. The book itself begins as a critique of Plato and the overly metaphysical notion of the "Idea of the Good" which, says Aristotle, is of no help in guiding us in matters of everyday ethical conduct. In those matters, which are of immediate concern to everyone, it is wiser to pursue the path of the golden mean, of balance between virtues. The "end" of all virtuous activity is leisure, that is to say, leisure forms the basis of all genuine ethical conduct. This Saturday my course on the Nicomachean Ethics commences. You are hereby most cordially invited to join us. Follow this link to enrol: halkyonacademy.teachable.com…

I've been working for months on a totally new kind of course, something I have not seen anyone do, on philosophy as a way of life but for the digital age! Let me know if you're interested. Course will soon be published.

Just interviewed Professor Stephen Houlgate on Hegel’s Science of Logic and what it means to lead a Hegelian life.

I’m delighted to announce a new @vervaeke_john course at my Halkyon Academy 🌞 John will lecture on Ultimate Reality and present an experimental theology that goes beyond the Abrahamic God. You may now register via this link halkyonacademy.teachable.com…

We had an incredible discussion in yesterday's seminar concerning Hegel's phil of fine art and aesthetics💫We discussed Bizet's Carmen, Mahler's 8th, Yates, Blake, Shakespeare, letters from Nietzsche, Michelangelo's David, contemporary art, and mused on the nature of movement 🔥

With the ever brilliant Dr. @RyanHaecker in Cambridge

Major announcement! @vervaeke_john is teaching a new course, “Beyond Nihilism”, at my online academy. You can now enrol. John leads all seminars which begin June 27th halkyonacademy.teachable.com…