LYCEUM INSTITUTE NEWS
On Nature and the Artificial
A Philosophical Happy Hour against the Inversion of our Knowledge What does it mean for something to be natural? We find the word ubiquitous in today’s marketing: all natural bug spray, dog treats, body wash, shampoo, deodorant, laundry detergent, toothpaste, sunscreen. Ironically, of course, none of these products occur by nature. Each is a product…
2024 Summer: A Thomistic Defense of Democracy
Can democracy be saved? Ours, on both the left and the right, seems to be a world viewed increasingly through post-liberal lenses. Must we return to a strict hierarchy if we are to abandon the “liberal experiment” that has rendered increasing ailment in recent decades—if, that is, we are not to lapse into socialist totalitarianism? …
2024 Summer: Aristotle’s Physics
Join us on an intellectually rigorous journey through Aristotle’s conception of physics as a scientific discipline in our upcoming Lyceum Institute Seminar. Why study the physics of an ancient thinker? One might think (and many do) Aristotle’s scientific work obsolesced by the discoveries of modernity. In truth, while he may have been mistaken in particular…
On Arguing God’s Existence
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the Unseriousness of Modern Objectors It has become fashionable for analytic philosophers in recent years[1] to attack arguments for the existence of God. These attacks, though their permutations are quite numerous, ordinarily attempt to show that the conception of God somehow entails a contradiction. These might include some form of…
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Where Philosophy and Sacred Theology Meet
On 20 May at 10am ET (see times around the world here), Dr. Victor Salas (Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit MI) will present on “Where Philosophy and Sacred Theology Meet: The Case of John of St. Thomas (Poinsot)”. This presentation will be accessible via Zoom (details on recording availability forthcoming). Add it to your calendars!…
The World as Sign: The Semiotic Metaphysics of St. Bonaventure
Our friends from the Deely Project at Saint Vincent College announce that Fr. Christopher Cullen, SJ (Fordham University) will present the 2024 annual John Deely Lecture on April 20 at 7pm, ET, entitled: “The World as Sign: The Semiotic Metaphysics of St. Bonaventure”. Members of the public are free to attend the lecture or watch…
Catherine Brown Tkacz on “The Incarnating and the Female Imago Dei”
Just published at Reality: a journal for philosophical discourse, Professor Catherine Brown Tkacz has authored a magnificent, erudite, and challenging article on the manner in which the incarnating of Christ realizes the imageo Dei in the female human person. ABSTRACT: This article explores the concept of the imago Dei (image of God) as manifested uniquely…
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