A Philosophical Happy Hour on better habits of order. Ours is a mentally broken society.  This brokenness has been unveiled, in many ways, by the internet: operating under a premise of anonymity (at the very least of distance from personal judgment), there is less fear to inhibit many from sharing their brokenness.  Such sharing may […]

Our friends from the Deely Project at Saint Vincent College announce that Fr. Christopher Cullen, SJ (Fordham University) will present the 2024 annual John Deely Lecture on April 20 at 7pm, ET, entitled: “The World as Sign: The Semiotic Metaphysics of St. Bonaventure”. Members of the public are free to attend the lecture or watch […]

Among the texts we pick up to read, some few will shape our thoughts and therefore our beliefs in ways much more profound than others. “No one opens a book on algebra with anxiety”, writes Brand Blanshard in his Philosophical Style, “as to whether the author is going to treat the binomial theorem roughly, or […]

Will we lose our humanity by trying to improve it? On Monday, 29 January 2024, Elon Musk posted on X.com that “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” The Neuralink project jumps off the pages of science fiction, right alongside the development of […]

We hear the word “philosophy” used often—often in cringe-inducing ways (“My philosophy on this is…” “That’s an interesting philosophy…” “His coaching philosophy…”), where the speaker really means an opinion or a method.  For others of us, it might conjure up images of books or a college course catalog; perhaps something having to do with symbolic […]

Our friends over at the Catherine Project have opened their submissions for Spring 2024 tutorial, reading group, and language tutorials! Their wide range of offerings cover many fascinating works and ideas: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, political theory, novels, the work of Wendell Barry, Latin, Greek, the art of writing, and more. You can discover their catalog here […]

In recent years, a number of online alternatives to colleges and universities have been established, of which the Lyceum is but one, even as these conventional institutions expand their own digital presence.  Many reasons spur on these alternatives—cost, time, location, curriculum, and so on—but the principal reason (at the very least, for the Lyceum’s existence) […]

We are delighted to announce our Latin courses available in 2024. But… why Latin? Does the study of Latin—a language spoken by no people, no country, no nation today—offer us anything other than an affectation or the satisfaction of niche reading (or liturgical) interests? Do we gain anything from this language itself, or does it […]

Education in the liberal arts has been neglected in modernity and, when not ignored, derided by the forces of ultramodern thought.  The consequences of this dereliction are evident: even those who wish to know often know less than they would like and cannot express themselves as well as they ought.  Fortunately, we can retrieve the […]

“The missionary labours of the Irish were not confined to Great Britain, but extended far and wide through the west of Europe. In the sixth and seventh centuries, Irish monasteries were founded in Austrasia and Burgundy, Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria; they were established among Frisians, Saxons, Alemanni. And as centres of Latin education as well as […]