On Knowing Ourselves
A Philosophical Happy Hour questioning how and how well we come to know ourselves. Who are we, really? Commonly we presume today that we know ourselves by a turn inward. We associate self-knowledge with “introspection” and “authenticity”. But despite this contemporary insistence, it seems many people do not know themselves: conflicted in motivation and desire, […]
On Silence, Sophistry, and the Preservation of Wisdom
Why we need digital monasteries for the layman, and what that means. The Roman Empire was inarguably among the greatest imperial powers ever to have existed. It spanned the breadth of all Europe, crossed into Britain, swept south along the Mediterranean, and held much of the world in order for hundreds of years. But over […]
Lecture: Jefferson, Natural Rights, and the Sources of the Declaration of Independence
In this Lyceum Institute Colloquium, John Pinheiro (Acton Institute) examines Thomas Jefferson’s understanding of natural rights and argues that the Declaration of Independence is best understood within the organic English constitutional tradition of common law, rather than primarily through a Lockean framework. The lecture explores the relationship between natural rights language and inherited English liberties, […]
