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Pursue language, the Trivium, philosophy, and research through guided study with faculty and a serious community of inquiry at the Lyceum Institute.
Research Project
Humanitas Technica
Discover how the Lyceum Institute is attempting to restore technology to its proper human proportion, and repairing the relationships we have with our devices, instruments, and systems.
Study Resource
The Four Ages of Philosophy
A growing timeline of major philosophical thinkers across the ages, including bibliographies of their major works. This work in progress will eventually include links to public domain texts, as well.
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Beyond the University
Support our 2026 Funding Campaign, as we build an institution for lifelong education, utilizing the best digital technology has to offer us, for genuine human flourishing through habits of thinking.
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The future of education is happening here. Investigate our studies, organization, community, research, and more.
Formation and study
Study
Foundations Courses, Philosophy Seminars and Reading Circles, Languages, and the Trivium.
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About
Mission, faculty, governance, member experiences, affiliations, and practical questions.
real Conversations
Community
Colloquia, Symposia, and the Philosophical Happy Hour.
Public projects
Research
Humanitas Technica and the Institute’s various collaborative projects.
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News & Essays
Institutional announcements and the essays of The Peripatetic.
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Personal Education
Faculty, not merely courses
The digital age allows us great flexibility, and many asynchronous resources, but education at the Lyceum is undertaken at the personal level: through instruction, conversation, correction, and real—personal—intellectual camaraderie.
Latest News & Essays
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On Closed Minds
Pivoting from the dangers of curiosity—the unrestrained desire to know all things—this week our Philosophical Happy Hour takes up the opposite vice:…
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On the Effects of Curiosity
Do you want to know “what is happening”? Cannot resist peeking behind that curtain, over that fence, clicking that link? Join our…
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We All Dress Like the Emperor
I would dare to say that everyone raised in the Western world has taken “privacy” for granted as a natural right: such…