The Practice of Philosophy in a Time of Loneliness
Brian Jones (PhD candidate, University of St. Thomas, TX) delivers a thoughtful lecture on how the practice of philosophy in our time of loneliness can sustain and elevate us throughout the present crisis and the threat it poses to the world. Jones draws on the thought of Alexis De Tocqueville, Byung-Chul Han, James V. Schall, […]
Hearing the Word of God: A Kierkegaardian Phenomenology of Conscience
ABSTRACT: “Husserl insisted that I should study Kierkegaard.” So recounts the Russian existential philosopher, Lev Shestov, in his posthumously published 1939 essay, “In Memory of a Great Philosopher: Edmund Husserl.” Why would Husserl have said such a thing? As soon as one begins attempting to trace the conceptual lineage of phenomenology back to Kierkegaard, a […]
The Problem of Christian Philosophy
In the second of the Lyceum Institute Colloquia in 2022, we present Dr. James Capehart, who brings us discussion of Christian Philosophy as it has been viewed in the Christian Middle Ages as well as transmitted through the debates of the 20th century. How in fact is Christian philosophy a problem? The wording itself has […]
The Practice of Philosophy in a Time of Loneliness
In the first Lyceum Institute Colloquia of 2022, we present Brian Jones, PhD Candidate at the University of St. Thomas, TX, who brings us a challenging, interesting, and thought-provoking discussion of what it means to practice philosophy in a time of loneliness and political turmoil. ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and the destructive mitigation responses to […]
Mending the Cartesian Rift: Walker Percy on Being Human
This lecture explores Percy’s argument and its background in the thought of Descartes and Peirce, and provides an assessment of this final public articulation by Percy concerning the issues that preoccupied him as a writer: the contemporary predicament of the human being, lost in the cosmos that it understands more and more, while understanding itself less and less.
How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan
The colloquium lecture delivered in November 2020 by Adam Pugen, PhD “How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan” is now available to the public. You can listen or download below (full lecture at the bottom). Please consider supporting the Lyceum Institute if you enjoy this lecture! The Lyceum Institute is currently […]
Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy and the Form of Health
The colloquium lecture delivered in September 2020 by Dr. Michel Accad, MD, “Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy and the Form of Health” is now available to the public. You can listen or download below (full lecture at the bottom). Please consider supporting the Lyceum Institute if you enjoy this lecture! Your donations allow us to support the pursuit […]
The Breakdown of Secular Democracy and the Need for a Christian Order
The question has been raised as to whether or not secular liberalism can sustain itself, especially as it seems to be breaking down in our present time, both from the perspective of anti-modernists who uphold tradition, but also from modernists themselves who have fallen into totalitarian ideologies, Marxism being the most common among them.
On Predestination and the Doctrine of Sufficient and Efficacious Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas
The colloquium lecture delivered in June 2020 by Dr. Taylor Patrick O'Neill, "On Predestination and the Doctirne of Sufficient and Efficacious Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas" is now available to the public.
Wholes and Parts: A Thomistic Refutation of Brain Death
In the first Lyceum Institute Colloquium of 2021, we present our own Michel Accad, MD, who will take us through a discussion of "brain death" as a supposed criterion for determining the presence of life in a human being.
