Open Registrations

Open Registrations

Here you will find all courses, seminars, conferences, and other offerings which are currently accepting registrations. Enrolled Lyceum members should contact Dr. Kemple via Microsoft Teams for the passwords to member-specific registrations.

Ethics: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Hearing [Public]

Ethics: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics from Hearing [Public]

Book I of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics raises questions of enormous significance. What does it mean for something to be an end? Why must there be a highest good? How can happiness be more than pleasure, success, honor, or contentment? What is the function proper to the human being? And how does the activity of reason disclose a good not merely for …
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Politics: Second Reality: On the Problem of Ideology [Public]

Politics: Second Reality: On the Problem of Ideology [Public]

The problem of ideology is a uniquely modern one, arising particularly through the period of late modernity in which subjectivism had reached its apex against metaphysical realism. Historically, this development could be seen especially through Marx and Nietzsche. This was a period in philosophy and culture wherein basic reality (or at the very least our knowledge of it) was cast …
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Human Formation in the Digital Age - Conference Registration [Public]

Human Formation in the Digital Age – Conference Registration [Public]

This conference is organized around dynamic, persistent, and thematic intellectual engagement.  The first day will establish a common ground through informal gathering and an open conversation on human personhood and the implications of artificial intelligence.  The second day will provide specific focus on key aspects of these issues through plenary lectures and a keynote address, before shifting to intensive, participant-driven discussions in the afternoon, where the central questions …
Price range: $75.00 through $175.00
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Enrollment

Enrollment

By enrolling in the Lyceum Institute, you agree to engage and promote our mission and especially to develop the community of intellectual and philosophical habits, both internally and in public-facing activities and publications of the Lyceum Institute. Enrollment comes in three different levels (Basic, Advanced, and Premium) and is billed at two different frequencies (monthly or annually).  Our prices are based on …
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Beyond the University

Beyond the University exists because the modern university, even where it succeeds, has become inadequate to the true tasks of education.  Education is not the transmission of information or preparation for employment, but the formation of good intellectual habits.  These aims no longer fit comfortably within institutions ordered primarily toward efficiency, expansion, and measurable outcomes.  The Lyceum Institute was founded to provide a genuinely different institutional form—one ordered toward education as an integral part of life rather than as a credentialing process.

The Lyceum cultivates enduring intellectual habits of inquiry, order, and memory through rigorous seminars, focused studies of the Trivium, classical languages, guided reading, and sustained inquisitive conversation.  By supporting the Lyceum Institute, you help sustain an independent public institution devoted to education ordered toward truth, continuity, and long-term intellectual formation.  Your gift ensures that this alternative remains available—not only for today’s students, but for generations to come.

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