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A digital environment dedicated to fostering philosophical and intellectual habits beyond the ordinary structures of academia.
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501(c)(3) public charity.
https://lyceum.institute
We conclude our seminar today with a discussion of time—a reality lost from our consciousness in the current structures of the unpoietic age we suffer. How can we restore its understanding? By a return, on the one hand, to rooting it in motion; on the other, ordering it through contemplation.
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We conclude our seminar today with a discussion of time—a reality lost from our consciousness in the current structures of the unpoietic age we suffer. How can we restore its understanding? By a return, on the one hand, to rooting it in motion; on the other, ordering it through contemplation.
Today we conclude our discussion of dialectical preliminaries: recapitulating the problems, starting points, instruments, and attacks constitutive of dialectical practice. This summary then brings us into thinking through arguments from loci & maxims.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Today we conclude our discussion of dialectical preliminaries: recapitulating the problems, starting points, instruments, and attacks constitutive of dialectical practice. This summary then brings us into thinking through arguments from loci & maxims.
From mnemonic techniques and the advent of written language to smartphones and “AI” assistants, we have sought technological extension of memory from the beginnings of our existence. But what is memory, truly? What are its operations? And how do technologies extend or hinder them?
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
From mnemonic techniques and the advent of written language to smartphones and “AI” assistants, we have sought technological extension of memory from the beginnings of our existence. But what is memory, truly? What are its operations? And how do technologies extend or hinder them?
What are the tactics the dialectician employs in his pursuit of the truth, his attack of a position? How does he gather propositions for the assault? How does he map the terrain of disputation? We will think this through today!
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What are the tactics the dialectician employs in his pursuit of the truth, his attack of a position? How does he gather propositions for the assault? How does he map the terrain of disputation? We will think this through today!
Our twelve faculty are making a real education available (to all who truly want it) in the digital age.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our twelve faculty are making a real education available (to all who truly want it) in the digital age.
Learn how they bring wisdom to students and support our efforts today.
donate.infinitegivin...
Learn how they bring wisdom to students and support our efforts today.
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How does the digital environment impact our institutions and structures of education? How does it change the habits involved? What are the opportunities open to us?
Today we think in line with these questions.
Today we think in line with these questions.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
How does the digital environment impact our institutions and structures of education? How does it change the habits involved? What are the opportunities open to us?
Today we think in line with these questions.
Today we think in line with these questions.
What precisely are dialectical loci? How do they differ from the rhetorical? Why are they important for our advance in knowledge and argumentation?
These and other questions structure our discussion today.
These and other questions structure our discussion today.
November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What precisely are dialectical loci? How do they differ from the rhetorical? Why are they important for our advance in knowledge and argumentation?
These and other questions structure our discussion today.
These and other questions structure our discussion today.
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is “the economy” a form of technology? Is it one, today, disordered with respect to the human good? Can it be restored to a more-human mode of realization—and, if so, how?
Questions we take up today in week five of our seminar!
Questions we take up today in week five of our seminar!
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is “the economy” a form of technology? Is it one, today, disordered with respect to the human good? Can it be restored to a more-human mode of realization—and, if so, how?
Questions we take up today in week five of our seminar!
Questions we take up today in week five of our seminar!
How certain can we be in our judgments? Are there different kinds of certitude—alongside different degrees? What distinguishes belief and certain knowledge?
Questions we probe today in week five of our seminar!
Questions we probe today in week five of our seminar!
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
How certain can we be in our judgments? Are there different kinds of certitude—alongside different degrees? What distinguishes belief and certain knowledge?
Questions we probe today in week five of our seminar!
Questions we probe today in week five of our seminar!
The Cursus Theologicus of John Poinsot (Joannes a Sancto Thoma) is a masterwork in theology—structured primarily as a commentary on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, it offers not only helpful exposition of St. Thomas, but original insight as well.
Learn more at the link below.
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Learn more at the link below.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Cursus Theologicus of John Poinsot (Joannes a Sancto Thoma) is a masterwork in theology—structured primarily as a commentary on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, it offers not only helpful exposition of St. Thomas, but original insight as well.
Learn more at the link below.
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Learn more at the link below.
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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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October 19, 2025 at 8:31 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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Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) became a leading philosopher and theologian of the late Scholastic period.
His scholarly work, characterized by rigorous analysis and synthesis of Scholastic thought, culminated in his most famous work, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, published 1597.
Link below!
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His scholarly work, characterized by rigorous analysis and synthesis of Scholastic thought, culminated in his most famous work, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, published 1597.
Link below!
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October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) became a leading philosopher and theologian of the late Scholastic period.
His scholarly work, characterized by rigorous analysis and synthesis of Scholastic thought, culminated in his most famous work, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, published 1597.
Link below!
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His scholarly work, characterized by rigorous analysis and synthesis of Scholastic thought, culminated in his most famous work, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, published 1597.
Link below!
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Do the changes to our communication introduced by the digital environment cause only chaos, friction, faction, and disorder—or may we use them to better the social relations by which properly exist as human?
Should be a fascinating conversation in our seminar today!
Should be a fascinating conversation in our seminar today!
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Do the changes to our communication introduced by the digital environment cause only chaos, friction, faction, and disorder—or may we use them to better the social relations by which properly exist as human?
Should be a fascinating conversation in our seminar today!
Should be a fascinating conversation in our seminar today!
Today we take up an inquiry into probability, opinion, and probable certainty as presented in the work of Ambroise Gardeil, O.P.
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today we take up an inquiry into probability, opinion, and probable certainty as presented in the work of Ambroise Gardeil, O.P.
In creating AI to take the place of human beings, we hold other persons as failures to our own standards.
Hubris always comes back to haunt us, however.
Hubris always comes back to haunt us, however.
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
In creating AI to take the place of human beings, we hold other persons as failures to our own standards.
Hubris always comes back to haunt us, however.
Hubris always comes back to haunt us, however.
The Latin Cursus Philosophicus of John Poinsot (Joannes a Sancto Thoma) gives one of the most complete syntheses of Scholastic logic, natural philosophy, and insightful treatises on the soul in the Thomistic tradition.
Moreover, Poinsot has a subtle genius—for he...
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Moreover, Poinsot has a subtle genius—for he...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Latin Cursus Philosophicus of John Poinsot (Joannes a Sancto Thoma) gives one of the most complete syntheses of Scholastic logic, natural philosophy, and insightful treatises on the soul in the Thomistic tradition.
Moreover, Poinsot has a subtle genius—for he...
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Moreover, Poinsot has a subtle genius—for he...
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Joints ache from the strain of mere daily life. Sitting down and standing up require exertions. Quiet moments grow in importance. Signs of annual decay—wilting flowers, the turning falling leaves, the lowering late year sun—become mirrors held up to the self.
But what is it, really, to age?
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But what is it, really, to age?
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October 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Joints ache from the strain of mere daily life. Sitting down and standing up require exertions. Quiet moments grow in importance. Signs of annual decay—wilting flowers, the turning falling leaves, the lowering late year sun—become mirrors held up to the self.
But what is it, really, to age?
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But what is it, really, to age?
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The Lyceum Institute community demonstrates an approach to education unconstrained by the limits and outmoded approach to learning which has become the norm. We believe ourselves establishing a new paradigm for education, beyond the university. Support our cause: https://bit.ly/4e0270g
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Lyceum Institute community demonstrates an approach to education unconstrained by the limits and outmoded approach to learning which has become the norm. We believe ourselves establishing a new paradigm for education, beyond the university. Support our cause: https://bit.ly/4e0270g
Our Foundations of Study courses provide beginning students—those who thirst to drink from the endless spring of lifelong learning—the necessary habits for living an intellectual life. Learn more: tinyurl.com/lycfos2025
October 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our Foundations of Study courses provide beginning students—those who thirst to drink from the endless spring of lifelong learning—the necessary habits for living an intellectual life. Learn more: tinyurl.com/lycfos2025
Today we continue our inquiry into the living patterns of human environment, with a special consideration on how technological development can—instead of leaving us with the feeling of displacement—better our psychophysiological environments.
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today we continue our inquiry into the living patterns of human environment, with a special consideration on how technological development can—instead of leaving us with the feeling of displacement—better our psychophysiological environments.
Today, we discuss the nature of dialectical dialogue and conflict, as well as the diverse situations of question and response—and how different dialogical tactics are understood and employed to direct the mind back towards the truth.
October 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today, we discuss the nature of dialectical dialogue and conflict, as well as the diverse situations of question and response—and how different dialogical tactics are understood and employed to direct the mind back towards the truth.