On Predestination and the Doctrine of Sufficient and Efficacious Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas
The colloquium lecture delivered in June 2020 by Dr. Taylor Patrick O'Neill, "On Predestination and the Doctirne of Sufficient and Efficacious Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas" is now available to the public.
Wholes and Parts: A Thomistic Refutation of Brain Death
In the first Lyceum Institute Colloquium of 2021, we present our own Michel Accad, MD, who will take us through a discussion of "brain death" as a supposed criterion for determining the presence of life in a human being.
This Week [6/27-7/3]
6/29 Tuesday Ex Sancto Thoma Legimus (9:30-10:00am ET). Legemus ex Sancto Thoma et convertit in linguam Anglicam; practicum bonum et utile est! Philosophical Happy Hour (5:30-7:00pm ET). Join us for drinks, conversation, lively debates, and get to know the Lyceum Institute and its members! Open to the public: use the “Send Us a Message” form here (write “Happy Hour” […]
This Week [6/20-6/26]
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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.
This Week [3/28-4/3]
Inquirere -- to ask, to seek, to inquire. What does this mean? Well, we hope to find out better this week...
