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On Being a Person
A Philosophical Happy Hour on persons and personalism. If someone came up to you—someone you know, perhaps not very well, but with whom you have had association for enough time to reasonably say, “Yes, I know him [or her]”—and said any of the following to you, how would you react? Most of us, I suspect,…
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Seminar: The Doctrine of Analogy [Fall 2024]
Description Details All Lyceum Institute seminars include weekly readings, lectures, and live discussion sessions. The discussion sessions are recorded. This advanced seminar includes extensive readings. All required texts will be provided in PDF format. Priced from $60 per person. Discussion sessions occur on Saturdays at 11:15am–12:15pm ET (see world times here), beginning on September 28…
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Seminar: The Difficulties of Technology [Fall 2024]
Description Details All Lyceum Institute seminars include weekly readings, lectures, and live discussion sessions. The discussion sessions are recorded. This seminar includes extensive readings, but does not require advanced philosophical knowledge. All required texts will be provided in PDF format. Priced from $60 per person. Discussion sessions occur on Saturdays at 1:45pm–2:45pm ET (see world…
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On Incompetence and Malice
On 13 July 2024, when a 20-year-old kid attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally—only inches away from doing so and taking the life of a rally-goer—it raised serious questions about the security around the former president. How could such a young man surveil the area with a drone, get into such an…
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On the One and the Many
ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμβαίνουσιν ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ Heraclitus Today when we hear the word “diversity”, our minds may well go towards the oft-discussed issue of political controversy. Without entering into that controversy itself, allow me to use it, nevertheless, to establish the topic for this week’s Philosophical Happy Hour. That is, underlying the…
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You Are Not Your Own: a phenomenological investigation of embodiment
It is our pleasure to again host Dr. Steven DeLay (Research Fellow, Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin and Tutorial Fellow, Ambrose College, Woolf University) in presenting his research. A prolific author and expert in French phenomenology, we are delighted to have Dr. DeLay contributing to our colloquia for the second year in a row.…
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Ideology and the Habits of Interpretation
A Philosophical Happy Hour investigating ideology, the habits of interpretation, and the right manner of confidence in our beliefs. An ideology is really ‘holding us’ only when we do not feel any opposition between it and reality – that is, when the ideology succeeds in determining the mode of our everyday experience of reality itself.…
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Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Sneha Jain
Today we introduce another of our Columbanus Fellows—dedicated students demonstrating their commitment and desire to grow in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding through a creative retrieval of the classic Western tradition and participation in genuine dialogical inquiry. Sneha Jain is an alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a B.S. in Chemical…
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Defragmenting Mental Disorder
A Philosophical Happy Hour on better habits of order. Ours is a mentally broken society. This brokenness has been unveiled, in many ways, by the internet: operating under a premise of anonymity (at the very least of distance from personal judgment), there is less fear to inhibit many from sharing their brokenness. Such sharing may…
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Does Thomism have a Future?
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the Past, Present, and Future of Thomism and its philosophy: must it change? Can it? Is it “relevant”? Not including the works of St. Thomas himself, nor of his Latin Age commentators and followers, I have four full shelves of books that one might consider “Thomistic”. These books, written as…
