Musings on Extrinsic Formal Causality and Practical Signs
This is not quite how I envisioned this first blog post turning out… Originally, I had considered writing something on the issue of the political common good, focusing on the plurality of common goods in relation to the political exercise of social justice in its original and true sense (namely, the right ordering of various […]
A Reflection on Loneliness
In the weekly Philosophical Happy Hour of the Lyceum Institute this past Wednesday (9/21), the topic of conversation turned to friendship and loneliness. It seems today that many in this twilight of modernity have been struck with loneliness. This should never be confused with merely “being alone”. Loneliness, rather, is the lack of true personal […]
⚘ Meanings we live in: Husserl’s theory of meaning and the surrounding world | Hamid Malekzadeh
Hamid Malekzadeh (PhD in Political Theory, University of Tehran) is the Executive Manager of the Iranian Society for Phenomenology (ISP) as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology (IYP). Some of his publishing are I Am A Not-Others: An Inquiry in Concreteness of the Political Subject (Pajvak, Tehran: 2014) and Embodiment and […]
⚘ Reality’s Windows ☀ Joseph DeChicchis
After reviewing the academic context of the Semiotic Society of America's 1975 formation, DeChicchis reconsiders Deely's 2001 comment about the SSA's first president in light of Deely's purchase of two books about structuralism and model theory.
Philosophy, Faith, and Signs
The Lyceum Institute brings two more seminars available to the general public, each taught by a uniquely qualified professor: Dr. Matthew Kenneth Minerd, translator of many, many works of Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, will teach us the philosophical thought of the "Sacred Monster" of Thomism; Dr. Brian Kemple, the only student ever to complete a doctoral dissertation under John Deely offers insight into the semiotic thought and contributions of a man once rightly called...
The Semiotics of John of St. Thomas | by Anabela Gradim
This event is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent […]
Reclaiming Wisdom – Summer Fundraising Campaign
Reclaiming Wisdom – Perennial Truths for the Digital Age Once the center of Western culture, the University has lost its way. For centuries, it was a force both stabilizing and civilizing, training young minds to discover the perennial truths by which they were elevated above the merely material concerns of our baser nature. The University […]
New Book – Linguistic Signification
Dr. Kemple has–at long last–finished his Linguistic Signification: A Classical and Semiotic Course in Grammar & Composition. Comprising twenty-six chapters and four appendices, this text is the work of two years concerted effort, but roughly a decade of thinking closely about the nature and function of language, particularly in light of the doctrine of signs–that […]
2021 Seminar Catalogue
Announcing the 2021 Lyceum Institute Seminar Catalogue: ten seminars taught by the Director and the Faculty Fellows, spanning the whole year. Each seminar lasts for 8 weeks and includes college-level exposure to philosophical education. Enroll today for discounts and more. Winter Metaphysics: The Discovery of Ens inquantum Ens Brian Kemple What is “being”, and how […]
Interpretation and Traditions
Often, in my own work--and in a way which spills inevitably into my own teaching--I draw together insights from three distinct traditions: Thomisim, Peircean semiotics, and Heideggerian phenomenology.
