Defending and Meditating on First Principles
The colloquium lecture delivered in May 2020 by Dr. Matthew Minerd, "Defending and Meditating on First Principles: Wisdom and Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange" is now available to the public.
[2021 Summer] Thomistic Psychology: World and Passions
The passions, though born into us by nature and fitting to our lives, must obey the orders of reason, else they bring disorder to the whole of our being. But since the passions are not disordered by nature (though of reason’s voice they are hard-of-hearing in a postlapsarian existence), we must uncover the causes of their disorder so prevalent today if we are to understand how they fail, and how they might succeed, in attaining their proper and fitting good. This is the goal of our seminar.
[2021 Summer] Semiotics: An Introduction
What is a sign? Though a seemingly simple question, and one which may receive a technically simple answer, attaining a clear understanding of signs is a task both very difficult and very important; so important, in fact, that the whole future of philosophy (and by extension, human knowledge in general) depends upon our getting the answer right. Such is the goal of this seminar.
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.
[Winter 2021] Metaphysics: The Discovery of Ens inquantum Ens
There are few topics which seem more unsuited to the 21st century than that of metaphysics: that is, the study of “being as being.” The subject is impossibly vague; the claims it makes seem inescapably representative of opinion rather than fact; it is an impractical field of study, advancing no discernable good for those that […]
Mending the Cartesian Rift – Walker Percy on Being Human
In the sixth of the Lyceum Institute Colloquia, we present Faculty Fellow Kirk Kanzelberger, PhD, who brings us an insightful, lengthy, and challenging discussion of Walker Percy, Charles Sanders Peirce, and their collected efforts to battle the Cartesian presuppositions.
[Fall 2020] Thomistic Psychology: Cognitive Life
Among all things observed in the universe, human beings alone ask about things other than themselves: they ask what, how, why–and so on. This singularity, downplayed by those who would make us malleable to the worst of all moral inclinations, demands a careful and rigorous inquiry–one which seeks to understand not only the precise nature […]
