From 16-17 September 2026, in St. Louis Missouri, the Lyceum Institute is hosting our first in-person event, Human Formation in the Digital Age: a conference asking how we must respond to our changed and rapidly changing technological environments in seeking to retrieve and foster a genuine formation of the human person. Here we announce our first second speaker:
Matthew Minerd
Matthew Minerd is a Ruthenian Catholic, husband, and father; a professor of philosophy and moral theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. His academic work has appeared in the journals Nova et Vetera, The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Saint Anselm Journal, Lex Naturalis, Downside Review, The Review of Metaphysics, and Maritain Studies, as well in volumes published by the American Maritain Association through the Catholic University of America Press. He have served as author, translator, and/or editor for volumes published by The Catholic University of America Press, Emmaus Academic, Cluny Media, and Ascension Press.
View more of his work here and his full academic CV here.
Dr. Minerd will be presenting: “The Scale of the (Rightly Ordered) Human: Habitus and the Measure of Technology”.
Abstract:
The question of technology always contains within it a further question: “What is the scale of the human?” Technology is not superhuman, for it represents one of the spiritual perfections of man the practical knower. Nonetheless, like all things spiritual in man, it contains the seeds of something supra-embodied, something potentially infinitized. That is, it carries within it the siren song of the transhumanist. In establishing measures for the virtuous use of human tools, then, the question of the scale of the human is of central importance—yet that scale is itself manifold. This talk considers one dimension of it: how a solid account of habitus can articulate the measure of technology, showing that technology must be well-ordered within the human reality of habituation and the vital, internal ordering of the human person.
Talks by and with Dr. Minerd
- A list of talks, media, and interviews
- Catholic Morality Explained (with Matt Fradd)
- The Philosophy of Jacques Maritain (with Pat Flynn)
Learn more about the conference and register here!
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