To Will or Not To Will (That is the Question)?
A Philosophical Happy Hour on the act of will, and the question: what does it mean to say that our will is free? What makes a will good? A common staple of western philosophical anthropology is arguing or asserting there is such a thing as a human…
While there are many pleasurable and practical benefits to studying other languages, the intellectual benefits are greater. Expand your mind with a study of Latin.
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Christ says: love your enemies.
Caesar says: break them so they cannot rise again.
Are these rival accounts of human life? Or do they disclose different orders within one intelligible whole? Join us as we examine the enduring controversy between revelation and philosophy.
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The Human Person and Artificial Intelligence
Today we conclude our first white paper series, derived from the 2024 Difficulties of Technology seminar, with Modules 8 – Technology and the Whole Person and 9 – Consensus on…
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Is there such a thing as “Christian philosophy”?
Or is philosophy autonomous, immune to revelation?
Our seminar asks this and related questions.
We have made the H.E. Butler translation of this text free in PDF and affordable in print!
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In his magisterial Institutio Oratoria, Quintilian provides us the guide to a proper rhetorical education. He details all the foundations necessary for learning the orator’s art. Quintilian’s text proves full of perennial insights. We have much to learn from him.
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This spring, we return to its true lineage—Augustine to Poinsot to Peirce—and the thinker who clarified it for our age: John Deely.
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“Semiotics.”
A word much used—rarely understood. Marketing? Fashion? Intellectual ornament?
Or does it name something fundamental: the study of sign action as such?
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“ipsum esse est perfectissimum omnium comparatur enim ad omnia ut actus... sicut receptum ad recipiens”—“the act of existence itself is the most perfect of all for it is compared to all as the actual... as the received to the receiver”.
Our seminar today glimpses the final principle of resolution.
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος – what, in the final analysis our minds can make, is the Word, the λόγος? What is in a name, what is the act of calling? We immerse our minds in these unfathomably deep questions today.
We speak of “liberalism”, “the West”, “the crisis of democracy”. Pierre Manent drives us asks a prior question: what is the political animal, and under what form does he live? If you want a politics beyond slogans, check out our 2026-27 reading group.
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Spring 2026 (discussions begin March 21).
Modern political life often feels unstable. Manent argues that this instability follows a long transformation in our understanding of political association itself. Join the Lyceum and examine this transformation with us!
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Spring 2026 (Discussions start March 21).
Lack of community is a big difficulty faced by the autodidact in the digital age. Learn how the Lyceum Institute is overcoming this problem: tinyurl.com/cmty2025
Registration closes 3/19; early access starts 2/26.
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Attacks on religion often ignore (or misrepresent) its most rigorous-thinking defenders. Augustine, Averroës, Maimonides, Aquinas deserve to be understood—for each was a powerful thinker.
Join us this spring as we examine their thoughts on faith and reason.
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Does faith perfect reason—or displace it?
Since the Enlightenment, religion has often been dismissed as superstition or control. Does this dismissal rests on a caricature? Our seminar confronts the question at its roots—with Maimonides, Averroës, Augustine, Aquinas, and more.
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Our final two white papers will be posted next week (3/9). In the meantime, discover a different, more thoughtful approach to the difficulties of technology: lyceum.institute/new...
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So much noise around “AI”—everyone has something to say, it seems, and wants to say it quickly. But most of what is said fails on two accounts: first, it insufficiently understands technology as such; second, it has an insufficient philosophical anthropology.
We correct those failures. 👇
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Summer 2026 (discussions start June 6).
Humanitas Technica – Update
Our on-going project of publishing the results and developments of the Humanitas Technica Project continues: today, adding a new theoretical paper by Adam Pugen (Faculty Fellow) and two more of our first white paper series. Reclaiming Communication Reclaiming…
An education is not attained by proceeding through a system, but through personal relations with those who lead us out of ignorance.
We have some great intellectual leaders. Read more about our Faculty Fellows: tinyurl.com/lyc-fac2025
Modern philosophy brought a chasm to meaning. Semiotics seeks to restore its continuity. John Deely’s work stands as a much-needed bridge: Scholastic realism meets postmodern sign-relationality.
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Peirce recovered the medieval doctrine of signs—but his work is scattered, technical, jargonistic, and difficult. John Deely made it intelligible. Join us for an 8-week inquiry into Deely’s synthesis of Scholastic realism and Peircean semiotics.
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