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2/22 Monday – Latin Reading Practice (10:00-10:30am ET). A quick half hour for anyone interested in improving their ability to read and understand the Latin Language.

2/23 Tuesday – Latin Reading Practice (1:30-2:00pm ET). A quick half hour for anyone interested in improving their ability to read and understand the Latin Language.

2/23 – Tuesday – Philosophical Conversation Hour (5:30-7:00pm ET). Join us for conversation, lively debates, and get to know the members of the Lyceum! Open to the public: use the “Send Us a Message” form here (write “Open Chat” in the message box) and we’ll see you on Teams!

2/25 Thursday – Latin Reading Practice (10:00-10:30am ET). A quick half hour for anyone interested in improving their ability to read and understand the Latin Language.

2/26 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–part of the truly international nature of the Lyceum Institute. A good way to bring the thinking of one week to a close and launch into the next.

2/27 Saturday – Latin Class(10-11am ET). Continuing to deepen our understanding and familiarity with the Latin language thanks to tough practice and good tutelage.

2/27 Saturday – Seminar Discussion Sessions. The next-to-last week of the Winter seminars. Metaphysics: The Discovery of Ens inquantum Ens brings its focus to the centrality of substance as that through which being is manifest in all its derivative, analogically predicated forms. Ethics: The Good Life continues its inquiry into the concept of leisure as illuminated by Josef Pieper.

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Can we be happy? At times, looking around in our twenty-first century world, it would seem that “happiness” is a contingent, fleeting and difficult-to-grasp matter more of luck than of choice and action. Such a view stems from an implicitly nihilistic worldview, one unconsciously imbibed by many today, in which meaning is imposed upon the realities which extrinsically act upon us. The result of this worldview—this effort to burden the human being with creating the meaning for all the universe—is a deep, gnawing grief at the inevitable failure and ever-more-extreme attempts at improving anesthetics to dull this pain. To the contrary of this sadly inverted worldview, this seminar will look at the philosophical treatments of those in the tradition of the ancients and medievals who construe happiness as an inward possession whereby the human person acts outwardly for the sake of attaining real goods meaningful in themselves.

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Happiness, as we will see, requires not only a development of virtue but a right-orientation of the self in relation to the world in which one lives: a discovery of the relations of fittingness through which we may receive from the world, but by which we may also extend the goodness we possess into the world: a realization of not only moral rectitude but delight, and joy, through leisure and contemplation.

In this seminar, lasting 8 weeks (see here for more information on all Lyceum Institute seminars), we will discuss a range of texts which speak to how we might conduct ourselves for the sake of having a good life. This is an entry-level seminar suitable for any who have had some exposure to philosophical thinking.

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WHEN: Saturdays from 16 January through 6 March 2021, from 3:00-4:00pm Eastern Time US.

A SECOND session will be scheduled at 9:15-10:15am Eastern Time US if there is sufficient interest.

WHERE: on the Lyceum Institute platform run through Microsoft Teams.

Lyceum Institute seminar costs are structured on a principal of financial subsidiarity. This seminar in particular has only two recommended levels of cost: $20 for those under the age of 30, and $50 for those over. Pay what you can, based on where you are in life–if you can afford $50, this will help pay for those who cannot. Lyceum Institute members will have free access to this seminar.

Registration is closed.

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[Winter 2021] Ethics: The Good Life