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A digital environment dedicated to fostering philosophical and intellectual habits beyond the ordinary structures of academia.
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We are building the future of education: escaping the limitations of the traditional university (cost, location, time) and developing habits of learning as integral to the whole of life.
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A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others.
What Makes a Thinker Worth Exploring?
A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others.
We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025
February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025
A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others.
What Makes a Thinker Worth Exploring?
A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others. A question surfaces again and again in philosophical discussion, sometimes with impatience: why do certain thinkers keep returning? Why are Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, so often treated as unavoidable points of reference—why not others?
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February 2, 2026 at 9:33 PM
A Philosophical Happy Hour asking why (or whether) we should read some thinkers over others, explore some ideas before the rest, and take some philosophers more seriously than others.
While there are many pleasurable and practical benefits to studying other languages, the intellectual benefits are greater. Expand your mind with a study of Latin.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
While there are many pleasurable and practical benefits to studying other languages, the intellectual benefits are greater. Expand your mind with a study of Latin.
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Spring 2026 (Discussions start March 21).
February 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Spring 2026 (Discussions start March 21).
Spring 2026 (discussions begin March 21).
February 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Spring 2026 (discussions begin March 21).
In his magisterial Institutio Oratoria, Quintilian provides us the guide to a proper rhetorical education. He details all the foundations necessary for learning the orator’s art. Quintilian’s text proves full of perennial insights. We have much to learn from him.
Learn more at the link below.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
In his magisterial Institutio Oratoria, Quintilian provides us the guide to a proper rhetorical education. He details all the foundations necessary for learning the orator’s art. Quintilian’s text proves full of perennial insights. We have much to learn from him.
Learn more at the link below.
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Learn more at the link below.
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We are happy to be building something real, meaningful, and needed. We hope you would like to support our efforts. Learn more about them at the link.
Lyceum Institute Endowment Fund
Contribute today to the Endowment and support the future of education!
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January 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We are happy to be building something real, meaningful, and needed. We hope you would like to support our efforts. Learn more about them at the link.
What distinguishes the modes of inquiry in the philosophical sciences? What does it mean to say that metaphysics requires the “mode of intellect” as opposed to the “mode of reason” or that of “demonstration”? Into this and more we inquire, reading Aquinas’ commentary on the De trinitate.
January 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
What distinguishes the modes of inquiry in the philosophical sciences? What does it mean to say that metaphysics requires the “mode of intellect” as opposed to the “mode of reason” or that of “demonstration”? Into this and more we inquire, reading Aquinas’ commentary on the De trinitate.
We are building a future for education that goes beyond the confines of the traditional university—rising to meet the needs of the contemporary digital world.
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Beyond the University
The modern university is not simply broken. In many respects, it functions exactly as designed—producing research, credentials, and professional specialization at scale. Yet even where it succeeds, it has become inadequate to the deeper task of education itself. Education, in its fullest sense, c...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We are building a future for education that goes beyond the confines of the traditional university—rising to meet the needs of the contemporary digital world.
Learn more and support our efforts here:
Learn more and support our efforts here:
All of us grow up with a mother tongue—a language which we not only learn in itself, but through which we learn language as such. But today, many also have a second or third language; and most commonly, one of these is English.
What advantage to this, the widest used lingua franca in history?
What advantage to this, the widest used lingua franca in history?
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
All of us grow up with a mother tongue—a language which we not only learn in itself, but through which we learn language as such. But today, many also have a second or third language; and most commonly, one of these is English.
What advantage to this, the widest used lingua franca in history?
What advantage to this, the widest used lingua franca in history?
Where do you exist? In the body? In the flesh?
You Are Not Your Own: Another Look at the Body, Flesh, and the Henry-Falque Debate - Steven DeLay
It is our pleasure to again host Dr. Steven DeLay (Research Fellow, Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin and Tutorial Fellow, Ambrose College, Woolf University) in presenting his research. A prolific author and expert in French phenomenology, we are delighted to have Dr. DeLay contributing to
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January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Where do you exist? In the body? In the flesh?
Fall 2026 (Discussions start September 12).
January 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Fall 2026 (Discussions start September 12).
You’re never truly alone when you’ve the gift of a philosophical habit.
The Practice of Philosophy in a Time of Loneliness
Brian Jones, PhD Candidate at UST in Houston, TX, brings us a challenging, interesting, and thought provoking discussion of what it means to practice philosophy in a time of loneliness and political turmoil.
ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and the destructive mitigation responses to it have certain
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January 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
You’re never truly alone when you’ve the gift of a philosophical habit.
Lack of community is a big difficulty faced by the autodidact in the digital age. Learn how the Lyceum Institute is overcoming this problem: tinyurl.com/cmty2025
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Lack of community is a big difficulty faced by the autodidact in the digital age. Learn how the Lyceum Institute is overcoming this problem: tinyurl.com/cmty2025
Let's talk about knowing ourselves:
On Knowing Ourselves
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really?
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January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Let's talk about knowing ourselves:
Fall 2026 (Discussions start September 12).
January 28, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Fall 2026 (Discussions start September 12).
Summer 2026 (discussions start June 6).
January 27, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Summer 2026 (discussions start June 6).
Our Endowment Fund secures the future for a new kind of school—an educational institution not concerned with credentials but wisdom, not “preparing” students for life but building lifelong habits of love for the truth.
Learn more and donate at the link below.
Learn more and donate at the link below.
Lyceum Institute Endowment Fund
Contribute today to the Endowment and support the future of education!
lyceum.institute
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Our Endowment Fund secures the future for a new kind of school—an educational institution not concerned with credentials but wisdom, not “preparing” students for life but building lifelong habits of love for the truth.
Learn more and donate at the link below.
Learn more and donate at the link below.
On Knowing Ourselves
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary…
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary…
On Knowing Ourselves
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary insistence, it seems many people do not know themselves: conflicted in motivation and desire, in belief and action, in knowing their responsibilities or accurately assessing their characters compared to what is seen by others.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:04 PM
On Knowing Ourselves
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary…
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary…
An education is not attained by proceeding through a system, but through personal relations with those who lead us out of ignorance.
We have some great intellectual leaders. Read more about our Faculty Fellows: tinyurl.com/lyc-fac2025
We have some great intellectual leaders. Read more about our Faculty Fellows: tinyurl.com/lyc-fac2025
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
An education is not attained by proceeding through a system, but through personal relations with those who lead us out of ignorance.
We have some great intellectual leaders. Read more about our Faculty Fellows: tinyurl.com/lyc-fac2025
We have some great intellectual leaders. Read more about our Faculty Fellows: tinyurl.com/lyc-fac2025
Spring 2026 (Discussions start March 21).
January 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Spring 2026 (Discussions start March 21).
Why we need digital monasteries for the layman, and what that means: silence and the preservation of wisdom against modern sophistry.
On Silence, Sophistry, and the Preservation of Wisdom
Why we need digital monasteries for the layman, and what that means. The Roman Empire was inarguably among the greatest imperial powers ever to have existed. It spanned the breadth of all Europe, crossed into Britain, swept south along the Mediterranean, and held much of the world in order for hundreds of years. But over its latter centuries, its martial rigor and social cohesion declined, leaving the Western half to fall under barbarian invasion.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Why we need digital monasteries for the layman, and what that means: silence and the preservation of wisdom against modern sophistry.
Spring 2026 (discussions begin March 21).
January 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Spring 2026 (discussions begin March 21).
The habits of intellectual development are always best nourished in communities of living conversation. We cultivate such a community in many ways—including our weekly Philosophical Happy Hour, open to the public.
Come see how we're building a habit of thinking:
Come see how we're building a habit of thinking:
Philosophical Happy Hour
Come join us for drinks (adult or otherwise) and a meaningful conversation. Open to the public! Held every Wednesday from 5:45–7:15pm ET.
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January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The habits of intellectual development are always best nourished in communities of living conversation. We cultivate such a community in many ways—including our weekly Philosophical Happy Hour, open to the public.
Come see how we're building a habit of thinking:
Come see how we're building a habit of thinking: