psychology
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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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This Week [4/25-5/1]
The weekly calendar of events for the Lyceum Institute, including all our Latin study sessions, Quaestiones Disputatae session, and seminars.
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[2021 Spring] Semiotics: The Tractatus de Signis of John Poinsot
What is a sign? It is a deceptively difficult question–deceptive because we think we know when we have never bothered truly to ask the question. We believe that we see and hear signs everywhere: guiding our use of streets, telling us where to exit, the location of the bathroom, what dangers might lie ahead, and…
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[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…
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Study and Motivation
Why study anything? Mostly, we open the books because a possession of the knowledge contained therein is believed to profit us: either because it will gain us coveted credentials or because it will enable us in some practical application. Our motivation seldom comes from the thing-itself-studied, but rather from something extrinsic, something beyond the practice…