postmodernism

  • Philosophy, Faith, and Signs

    The Lyceum Institute brings two more seminars available to the general public, each taught by a uniquely qualified professor: Dr. Matthew Kenneth Minerd, translator of many, many works of Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, will teach us the philosophical thought of the “Sacred Monster” of Thomism; Dr. Brian Kemple, the only student ever to complete a doctoral…

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  • [2022 Summer] An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture

    As the world grew into and through modernity, and technology shrank the distances between centers of civilization, the very nature of culture itself became an explicit philosophical question: most especially when technology produced in the wider reaches of communication something akin to a “global consciousness”: an awareness of people and their cultures all across the…

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  • Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog

    View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you’d like to take!

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  • [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…

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  • [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…

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  • [This Week] 3/14-3/20

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  • This Week [2/28-3/6]

    Moving into our Spring quarter already! Seminars and more at the Lyceum Institute.

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  • [2021 Spring] Politics: Postmodern Culture and Principles

    This seminar will explore contemporary political and cultural issues from a classically realist foundation, proposing a genuinely “postmodern” response to the crisis of our time. When the term “postmodern” is used today, it typically denotes what is in practice a kind of “hypermodernism,” that is, an ideology which simply takes modern thinking to its logical…

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  • [Fall 2020] Semiotics: John Deely

    Semiotics–toward which human beings took their first explicit steps in the beginning of the Latin Age of philosophy, in the work of St. Augustine of Hippo–is that by which we begin in a true postmodernism. This is one of the key and perhaps surprising claims of John Deely (1942–2017). That is, often today what is…

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