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  • Engagement Survey (Prize Giveaway)

    Public Engagement Survey Now Open The Lyceum Institute exists to serve a public good: serious liberal education conducted online, grounded in tradition, and ordered toward intellectual and moral formation. As our programs, seminars, and community continue to grow, it is important that we pause to listen—not only to members, but to the wider public we…

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  • On Authentic Play

    A Philosophical Happy Hour investigating the nature, significance, and importance of authentic play. What does it mean to play?  Though we are all acquainted with play from an early age, we might be hard-pressed nonetheless to define it.  On the one hand, it seems something common to higher animals: not only our pets—dogs and cats—but…

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  • On the Postmodern, Postliberal, and Postacademic

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on the meaning of the postliberal, the postmodern, and the postacademic—and what we signify by “post-”. We do not think often enough about the meanings of words, especially those that have entered into the popular lexicon. The term ‘postmodern’ provides a good example of this unthinking, and in two ways. First…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Joshua Streeter

    Today we continue highlighting some of our Columbanus Fellows, demonstrating the quality of our endeavors! These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Joshua A. Streeter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Lance Gracy

    Over the next several months we will highlight a few of our Columbanus Fellows, bringing to light the character of students engaged in our program! These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Lance…

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  • Funding the Lyceum Institute in 2022

    Dear friends: I need your help. Two-and-a-half years ago I started an experiment: to see whether people genuinely and seriously interested could engage in a philosophical inquiry, online, dispersed around the country or even the world. The answer? “Yes”; but a “yes” that demanded more. As it turns out, those who are genuinely and seriously…

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