Seminar

  • [2022 Spring] Introduction to a Living Thomism

    What is Thomism?  What does it mean, to be a Thomist?  Étienne Gilson once wrote in private correspondence to John Deely, in a letter written in the summer of 1968 that: ‘A thomist’ of whatever brand should find it superfluous to develop a question which Thomas was content to pass over with a few words……

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    [2022 Spring] Introduction to a Living Thomism

  • Winter Seminars – Reminder

    Still time to sign up for 2022 Winter Seminars! Discussions start soon, readings already posted.

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    Winter Seminars – Reminder

  • [2022 Winter] Semiotics: Cultural World of the Sign

    How can semiotics help us to understand culture? Simply put: through understanding the causality of the sign in conjunction with the reality of the specifically-human world. This demands, of course, that we understand what we mean by reality. Is it just those things that exist independently of our minds? Or does it have a broader,…

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    [2022 Winter] Semiotics: Cultural World of the Sign

  • [2022 Winter] Introduction to Philosophical Thinking

    What is philosophy?  Is it something we study—as subject, like biology or literature?  Is it something each of us has, individually—as in, “my personal philosophy”?  Is it a relic of history?  An intellectual curiosity?  A means to impress at cocktail parties and on social media? Or perhaps—as this seminar will attempt to demonstrate—philosophy is a…

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    [2022 Winter] Introduction to Philosophical Thinking

  • Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog

    View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you’d like to take!

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    Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog

  • Fall Seminars

    Fall Seminars Open for Enrollment: More than Aesthetics, The Meaning of Evil, and Metaphysics: God.

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    Fall Seminars

  • [2021 Fall] Thomistic Psychology: The Meaning of Evil

    This seminar aims to deepen our questioning concerning the meaning of evil, beginning with the nature of the goods to which various evils are opposed.   This introduction will lead us to the seminar’s main concern, which is with moral evil as a kind of primary rupture in the world of free beings, and the questions…

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    [2021 Fall] Thomistic Psychology: The Meaning of Evil

  • [2021 Fall] More than Aesthetics: Ens Artificiale and the Philosophy of Art

    Exploring its topic from a broadly Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective, this course will use the work of Jacques Maritain to probe the broader set of philosophical issues involved in the “philosophy of art”: ens artificiale, the nature of practical reason, the metaphysics of art-craft, and topics pertaining to philosophical aesthetics, considered primarily from the perspective of this…

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    [2021 Fall] More than Aesthetics: Ens Artificiale and the Philosophy of Art

  • [2021 Fall] Metaphysics: The Existence, Nature, and Intelligibility of God

    The fourteen questions which we will read in this seminar, comprising eighty-five articles, will explore the existence, nature, and intelligibility of God.  The existential demonstration—the famous “five ways” of Aquinas—will be covered quickly: for their intelligibility grows the better we understand the rest of the questions, and we will be better equipped for grasping their…

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    [2021 Fall] Metaphysics: The Existence, Nature, and Intelligibility of God

  • [2021 Summer] Science: Aristotle’s Organon

    In order to be a proper ἀκροᾱτής (akroates), i.e., hearer or student of Aristotle’s, such that one might read and understand the Stagyrite’s treatment of specific subjects like nature (Physics), the soul (De Anima), ethics (Nicomachean Ethics), politics (Politics) or metaphysics (Metaphysics), one must first obtain a general understanding of Aristotle’s rigorous logical method. This…

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    [2021 Summer] Science: Aristotle’s Organon