To be a flaneur professionelle! If we all could be, would not the world be a more beautiful place. Tom Hodgkinson, founder and editor of The Idler magazine and online academy, discusses his life philosophy with Johannes Achill Niederhauser and why he thinks that idleness means radical freedom. Tom's Academy: https://www.idler.co.uk/ Johannes' course on idleness: https://classical-philosophy-academy.teachable.com/p/idlenesswithdignity/ The course addresses the question of the dignified idle life. In an epoch of total work where work defines our identity many look for an escape. There are in the history of ideas dozens of examples of the dignified idle life and the importance of leisure for civilisation. The overall argument is that stillness and idleness are at the heart of it all. We must assume them as a stance if we are to find meaning in our lives. We will consider the Ancient thinkers Cicero, Plato and Aristotle. Thinkers from the modern period devoted to this question include Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Bertrand Russell and Josef Pieper. The course is based on my time as a research fellow at the Leisure Project of the University of Freiburg and my peer-reviewed paper on Idleness with Dignity (published in the Yearbook of Hermeneutics) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoBahCi67s

You are invited to join the path of the wonder of thinking. You can enrol in my Plato course here: https://halkyonacademy.teachable.com/p/plato-republic ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeDYzAcin4k