[2022 Spring] Introduction to a Living Thomism
What is Thomism? What does it mean, to be a Thomist? Étienne Gilson once wrote in private correspondence to John Deely, in a letter written in the summer of 1968 that: ‘A thomist’ of whatever brand should find it superfluous to develop a question which Thomas was content to pass over with a few words… […]
IO2S Deely – Daydreams and Dark Magic: Semiotics and the Meaning of Evil
On 19 February 2022, at 2pm ET (check event times around the world here), our own Kirk Kanzelberger will present on “Daydreams and Dark Magic: Semiotics and the Meaning of Evil”. Dr. Kanzelberger holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University (New York), an M.A. in Philosophical and Systematic Theology from the Dominican School of […]
Wednesday Happy Hour [16 February 2022]
Every Wednesday of 2022, the Lyceum Institute hosts an online Philosophical Happy Hour from 5:45-7:15pm ET (or later)—open to the public—where we discuss topics ranging far and wide in conversations civil, thoughtful, and conducted with an effort to understand better not only one another but the truth. Drinks optional: coffee, tea, wine, whiskey, beer, water, […]
IO2S Deely – No mere ‘flyover country’: some historical notes regarding the Schola Thomae as an integral context of the thought of Dr. John Deely
A Ruthenian Catholic, husband, and father, Matthew K. Minerd is a professor of philosophy and moral theology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA and Faculty Fellow for the Lyceum Institute. His academic work has appeared in the journals Nova et Vetera, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Saint Anselm Journal, Lex […]
Winter Seminars – Reminder
Still time to sign up for 2022 Winter Seminars! Discussions start soon, readings already posted.
[2022 Winter] Introduction to Philosophical Thinking
What is philosophy? Is it something we study—as subject, like biology or literature? Is it something each of us has, individually—as in, “my personal philosophy”? Is it a relic of history? An intellectual curiosity? A means to impress at cocktail parties and on social media? Or perhaps—as this seminar will attempt to demonstrate—philosophy is a […]
Announcing 2022 Seminar Catalog
View the 2022 Seminar Catalog for the Lyceum Institute to preview which you'd like to take!
How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan
The colloquium lecture delivered in November 2020 by Adam Pugen, PhD “How to be a Contemporary Thomist: The Case of Marshall McLuhan” is now available to the public. You can listen or download below (full lecture at the bottom). Please consider supporting the Lyceum Institute if you enjoy this lecture! The Lyceum Institute is currently […]
Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope
Beginning October 6th, every other Wednesday Dr. Mark McCullough (PhD in Humanities from the City University of New York) will facilitate a 45-minute discussion on one canto of Dante Alighieri’s masterwork The Divine Comedy at 12pm ET: the Lectio Commedia: Dante, Poet of Hope. This will be preceded by a reading of the canto with […]
Fall Seminars
Fall Seminars Open for Enrollment: More than Aesthetics, The Meaning of Evil, and Metaphysics: God.
