Posts about ethics

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 [2/21-2/27]

A quick list of all that's happening this week 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.

This Week [1/31-2/6]

February already? How the days fly. 2/2 Tuesday – Philosophical Happy Hour (5:30-7:00pm ET). Grab a drink and have a chat about things that really matter! Always open to suggested topics: any questions you may have, feel free to bring them. Open to the public. Use the “Send Us a Message” form here (write “happy […]

This Week [1/24-1/30]

Things are continuing to come together--and there will never be a better time to sign-up than now.

This Week [1/17-1/23]

An exciting week at the Lyceum! Lots of things new, lots of progress. A good time to consider signing up.

Beyond the University

Beyond the University exists because the modern university, even where it succeeds, has become inadequate to the true tasks of education.  Education is not the transmission of information or preparation for employment, but the formation of good intellectual habits.  These aims no longer fit comfortably within institutions ordered primarily toward efficiency, expansion, and measurable outcomes.  The Lyceum Institute was founded to provide a genuinely different institutional form—one ordered toward education as an integral part of life rather than as a credentialing process.

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