First: Summer Seminars are open!
Science: On Being, Language and Reason, and Cause in Aristotle’s Organon
This seminar treats Aristotle’s methodology for coming to know reality in two parts. In the first part, to be led by Dr. Daniel Wagner, students will gain understanding of the primary terms for defining (Topics), the classification of the most general concepts of the intellect (Categories), and the method of reasoning used for defining beings, which Aristotle calls induction (ἐπαγωγή/epagoge) and division (διαίρεσις/diairesis and ἀνάλῠσις/analusis) (Posterior Analytics). In the second part, to be led by Dr. John Boyer, students will gain understanding of Aristotle’s method of deductive demonstrative reasoning and explanation by proper cause (αἰτία/aitia), which constitutes scientific understanding (Posterior Analytics).
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Semiotics: An Introduction
Among the specific goals for the seminar are to understand the general theory of semiotics—as the study of the action of signs—which was founded in Charles Peirce and has since been developed; though we cannot truly grasp this notion of signs unless we first understand the categorical basis of Peirce’s thought, or his “phaneroscopy”; and by grasping this phaneroscopy, along with the general notion of “sign”, we will further pursue the goal of understanding how signs play a role in specifically human thinking.
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Thomistic Psychology: World and Passions
Contrary to both [an extreme Stoicism and a libertine Humeanism], the Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective sees in the intellect and human body a hierarchical complementarity, for the passions are a means of receipt and response to the world—and especially the specifically human world—in which we live and by which we pursue our proper ends. Thus, understanding the dynamism of world and passions is essential to understanding the rectitude, and failures, of our passionate dispositions.
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5/24 Monday
- Quaestiones Disputatae – Inquirere (9:30-11am ET). First of two May Inquirere sessions. These sessions, lasting anywhere from 30-90 minutes, allow us to work out our questions communally in a live chat. There are three ways in which someone may participate in an Inquirere session: as an Inquirer, as a Responder, or as an Observer. An Inquirer is seeking to define and develop a question. A Responder brings updates to their question and works in a live dialectic on what updates have been brought. Observers listen and comment on the inquiries and responses given.
- Exercitium Linguae Latinae (2:00-2:30pm ET). Legemus ex Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata ut melioremus nostrum locutionem et augeamus familiaritatem vocabulis.
5/25 Tuesday
- Ex Sancto Thoma Legimus (10:00-10:30am ET). Legemus ex Sancto Thoma et convertit in linguam Anglicam; practicum bonum et utile est!
- Philosophical Happy Hour (5:30-7:00pm ET). Join us for drinks, conversation, lively debates, and get to know the Lyceum Institute and its members! Open to the public: use the “Send Us a Message” form here (write “Happy Hour” in the message box) to join us on Teams!
5/26 Wednesday
- Exercitium Linguae Latinae (2:00-2:30pm ET). Legemus ex Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata ut melioremus nostrum locutionem et augeamus familiaritatem vocabulis.
- Quaestiones Disputatae – Inquirere (3:00-4:30pm ET). The second of two May Inquirere sessions.
5/27 Thursday
- Ex Sancto Thoma Legimus (10:00-10:30am ET). Legemus ex Sancto Thoma et convertit in linguam Anglicam; practicum bonum et utile est!
5/28 Friday
- Open Chat (9:30-10:30am ET). Our regular Friday-morning open chat, allowing conversation between those in the West and those in the East–bridging the international community of the Lyceum Institute.
- Exercitium in Lingua Latina (11pm-12am ET). Etiam exercitium in Lingua Latina! Ista hora conveniens Orientalibus est (11am Manila time).
5/29 Saturday
- Latin Class (10-11am ET). Remanemus magistro et discipulis in ludo, dum docet et discunt… eh… alius discit sed alius queritur. O puer improbus!