Real Education
With studies in the Trivium, Latin, Greek, Literature, and Philosophy, our Faculty provide the very best of tradition.
Digital Life
Learn how we are transforming the use of digital technology to mitigate its flaws and accentuate its benefits.
Subsidiarity
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About us
a new approach
to education
The Lyceum Institute offers both a retrieval and a furthering of the classical intellectual tradition of the Western world, reinforced by a community that gives more than just a curriculum. No degrees, credentials, certificates.
Just learning, love of the truth, and seeking the habits of a truly intellectual life.
re-thinking learning
Learning is almost universally recognized as a desirable good—but do we truly know what it means to learn? Have we accepted a false paradigm of education?
We at the Lyceum aim to challenge this paradigm and pursue a better, and more human, way of seeking education.
programs
Language
In an age saturated with communication, good thinking demands a certain mastery of language. With our extensive program in the Trivium and in Classical Languages, we provide this oft-neglected core of education.
PHILOSOPHY
The intellectual life requires habits of questioning—the desire to examine life’s meaning, to confront its difficulties with equanimity and honest. We strive at the Lyceum to cultivate these habits and to approach inquiry with both rigor and flexibility.
Seminars
Lyceum Institute Faculty offer philosophy seminars four times per year (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall) on a wide range of topics. Join us in the love of wisdom. Read more »
Quaestiones Disputatae
Advanced students in our program undertake the deep inquiry into an important question of intellectual merit and defend the results of their inquiry. Read more »
Archives
The essential characteristic of digital technology consists in its archival capacity. Utilizing this, we preserve countless hours of lectures, discussions, and resources for study. Read more »
Community
Intellectual habit grows best through persistent communal engagement, taking part in a living inquiry that unfolds in dialectic. Discover like-minded peers. Read more »
Colloquia
Though the Lyceum stands as a robust intellectual environment all its own, we seek regular engagement with scholars from outside our own community as well. Read more »
Symposia
Art manifests the truth of in ways philosophy cannot, given its concrete immersion in the world of corporeal signs. We do well to contemplate beauty. Read more »
administration and fellows
faculty
Brian Kemple
Executive Director
Geoffrey Meadows
Executive Assistant
Richard Sharpe
Director of Languages
Herbert Hartmann
Faculty Fellow
Scott Randall Paine
Faculty Fellow
Matthew Minerd
Faculty Fellow
Daniel Wagner
Faculty Fellow
Kirk Kanzelberger
Faculty Fellow
Francisco Plaza
Faculty Fellow
adam pugen
Faculty Fellow
jacob j. andrews
Faculty Fellow
john boyer
Faculty Fellow
Latest Updates
News and Essays
The Growth of Consciousness
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the nature, growth, and importance of understanding consciousness. The concept of “consciousness” today seems rather important: it is brought[…]
Do We Still Need Universities?
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the ends and purposes of higher education, universities, and the needs of teaching and learning. —Reading Francis Slade’s “Ends[…]
On the Shifting Sands of Language
A Philosophical Happy Hour on Owen Barfield’s “Philology and the Incarnation”, wherein we will think about meaning and metaphor in language. For this week’s[…]
Trivium: Grammar I – Foundations [Winter 2026]
Announcement of our Winter 2026 Trivium: Art of Grammar course, in which we investigate the foundations of the English language (and language generally) through[…]
Seminar: Metaphysics – Discovery of Ens inquantum Ens [Winter 2026]
Announcement of our Winter 2026 Philosophy Seminar, taking up the foundations of an Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics and discussing its seminal importance to all of life.[…]
Seminar: Language and Philosophy [Winter 2026]
Announcement of our Winter 2026 Philosophy Seminar, diving deep into a graduate level discussion of language as fundamental to our understanding of human experience.[…]
intellectual habits for the digital age
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