Weekly Schedule of Events
7/26 Monday
- Exercitium Linguae Latinae (2:00-2:30pm ET). Legemus ex Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata ut melioremus nostrum locutionem et augeamus familiaritatem vocabulis.
- Semiotics: An Introduction (6:00-6:45pm ET). The second discussion of the week for the Semiotics seminar–what do we mean by “reality”? Or “belief”? How are they related to “truth”? These are our questions this week: and here, pulling together some of the varied threads we have seen in the previous weeks, we will see how the right understanding of signs can lead us from thought to truth itself: and all the benefits thereof.
7/27 Tuesday
- Ex Sancto Thoma (9:30-10:00am ET). Legemus ex ‘De principiis naturae‘ Sanctus Thomae 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) and we’ll see you on Teams!
7/28 Wednesday
- Exercitium Linguae Latinae (2:00-2:30pm ET). Legemus ex Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata ut melioremus nostrum locutionem et augeamus familiaritatem vocabulis.
7/29 Thursday
- Ex Sancto Thoma (9:30-10:00am ET). Legemus ex ‘De principiis naturae‘ Sanctus Thomae et convertit in linguam Anglicam; practicum bonum et utile est!
- Elementary Latin Class (6:00-7:00pm ET). Week three of our new introductory Latin Class, proceeding through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. If you are interested in learning Latin, check out the class! It’s not too late to sign-up!
7/30 Friday
- Open Chat (9:30-10:15am 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).
7/31 Saturday
- Intermediate Latin Class(10-11am ET). Fabulam Daedeli et Icari Syra narrabit ad Quintum, et legemus et convertemus in linguam Anglicam, ex capitulo XXVI in Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata.
- Seminar Discussion Sessions: Week 8 of 8.
- Science: Aristotle’s Organon (1-2pm ET). Concluding with a look at key chapters in Book II of the Posterior Analytics, we will see precisely how it is that a knowledge of causes leads to a scientific knowledge–and inquire into the scope and possibility of such a knowledge’s attainment and certitude.
- Semiotics: An Introduction (3-4pm ET). Among the words one finds in all the key texts of Charles Sanders Peirce, “continuity” perhaps holds a principled place of importance: for the fundamental doctrine of Peirce is not his semiotic, but his synechism: his belief that the universe holds no gaps, no hard and fast distinctions in the occurrence, existence, and intelligibility of phanerons (or, we might say, “phenomena”). It is to the thinking through of this synechistic principle that we turn our attention in this the final week.
- Thomistic Psychology: World and Passions (5-6pm ET). We have spent most of our time looking in this seminar at specific treatments of the passions themselves; but now we must constitute our understanding of these passions into our understanding of the world: a consideration of how thinking, which is always world-oriented, is modulated by these passions. Here we combine an oft-neglected text of Aquinas with the thinking of John Deely.