[Summer 2022] Philosophical Thought of Garrigou-Lagrange
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, styled by certain parties as the "Sacred Monster of Thomism," taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the "Angelicum") in Rome for a long career of over fifty years. Although he is normally understood to be a conservative Roman theologian of his period, an honest assessment of his work shows...
[2022 Spring] Thomistic Psychology: A Retreival
In 2017, an article was published in the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, highlighting how pervasive mental health issues have become in our world. Depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and psychosis all appear, according to the authors (Veronica Tucci and Nidal Moukaddam), to be rapidly on the rise. Why? Is it a matter, merely, of […]
The Practice of Philosophy in a Time of Loneliness
In the first Lyceum Institute Colloquia of 2022, we present Brian Jones, PhD Candidate at the University of St. Thomas, TX, who brings us a challenging, interesting, and thought-provoking discussion of what it means to practice philosophy in a time of loneliness and political turmoil. ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and the destructive mitigation responses to […]
IO2S Deely – Daydreams and Dark Magic: Semiotics and the Meaning of Evil
On 19 February 2022, at 2pm ET (check event times around the world here), our own Kirk Kanzelberger will present on “Daydreams and Dark Magic: Semiotics and the Meaning of Evil”. Dr. Kanzelberger holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University (New York), an M.A. in Philosophical and Systematic Theology from the Dominican School of […]
Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope
Beginning October 6th, every other Wednesday Dr. Mark McCullough (PhD in Humanities from the City University of New York) will facilitate a 45-minute discussion on one canto of Dante Alighieri’s masterwork The Divine Comedy at 12pm ET: the Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope. This will be preceded by a reading of the canto with […]
[2021 Fall] Thomistic Psychology: The Meaning of Evil
This seminar aims to deepen our questioning concerning the meaning of evil, beginning with the nature of the goods to which various evils are opposed. This introduction will lead us to the seminar’s main concern, which is with moral evil as a kind of primary rupture in the world of free beings, and the questions […]
This Week [2/28-3/6]
Moving into our Spring quarter already! Seminars and more at the Lyceum Institute.
This Week [2/14-2/20]
Lots of Latin this week! And lots of discussion. Next week: Trivium and Quaestiones Disputatae.
