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A digital environment dedicated to fostering philosophical and intellectual habits beyond the ordinary structures of academia.

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We are building the future of education: escaping the limitations of the traditional university (cost, location, time) and developing habits of learning as integral to the whole of life.

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Coming 2026.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Coming Winter 2026.
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Coming 2026
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Coming 2026.
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Do you want to help us build something lasting and important?
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Come learn to read Latin with us in 2026: the language of the most influential Western empire, the language of the most influential Western religion—lingua imperii, lingua ecclesia:
Latin Courses (2026)
Overview of the Lyceum Institute's Latin Course offerings for 2026—from introductions to intermediate readings in Scholastic Latin!
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November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you want to bring together knowledge of the Greek language and of Greek philosophy, this is the Winter 2026 course for you!
Greek: Plato's Apology [Winter 2026] - Lyceum Institute
Announcement of our Winter 2026 Greek Course, reading Plato's Apology—can we discover the depths of Plato's thinking in the original language?
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November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In 2026, the Lyceum Institute will offer the first 3 of 6 courses in our core Trivium curriculum, introducing Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.
Trivium Courses (2026)
In 2026, the Lyceum Institute will offer the first three of six courses in our core Trivium curriculum, providing an entryway into a truly “liberal” education: Art of Grammar I: Foundations Art of Logic I: Basics of Argumentation Art of Rhetoric I: Discovery of Arguments We are also aiming to introduce regular occasions throughout the year for practicing dialectical disputation and rhetorical presentation, though plans for this are still taking shape.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

We are deeply grateful to everyone who has given us their gifts of time, money, energy, attention, prayers, and any other support offered to this venture.
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What do you owe—to whom? How much? Are you properly thankful?
On Gratitude and Debts
A Philosophical Happy Hour on gratitude and the repayment of gifts—that is, the satisfaction of debts for the gratuitously-given—through the insight of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A Philosophical Happy Hour on gratitude and the repayment of gifts—that is, the satisfaction of debts for the gratuitously-given—through the insight of St. Thomas Aquinas.
On Gratitude and Debts
A Philosophical Happy Hour on gratitude and the repayment of gifts—that is, the satisfaction of debts for the gratuitously-given—through the insight of St. Thomas Aquinas. The virtue of gratitude, St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, “always inclines, insofar as possible, to pay back something greater” than one has received. In a world of diminished personal bonds, this perhaps seems... difficult. Ours is a very transactional society.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We conclude our seminar today with a discussion of time—a reality lost from our consciousness in the current structures of the unpoietic age we suffer. How can we restore its understanding? By a return, on the one hand, to rooting it in motion; on the other, ordering it through contemplation.
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Today we conclude our discussion of dialectical preliminaries: recapitulating the problems, starting points, instruments, and attacks constitutive of dialectical practice. This summary then brings us into thinking through arguments from loci & maxims.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Dr. Brian Kemple of the Lyceum Institute joins Anthony Alberino for a discussion on digital technology and its relation to the human soul.
Digital Technology and the Malformation of the Human Soul
Dr. Brian Kemple of the Lyceum Institute joins Anthony Alberino for a discussion on digital technology and its relation to the human soul. Together they reflect philosophically on: the way to resist the malformation of the human soul in the digital age the nature of technology the way in which technology psychologically attunes and structures us the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking in the digital environment…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's an honor to teach with the Lyceum Institute, and it was a privilege to talk with Dr. Kemple about what it means to be a classical educator.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A Philosophical Happy Hour on Jacques Ellul’s “Meditation on Inutility”, challenging us to think about the uselessness of human action.
On Human Uselessness
A Philosophical Happy Hour on Jacques Ellul’s “Meditation on Inutility”, challenging us to think about the uselessness of human action. For this week’s Philosophical Happy Hour, we will take up a specific short text to read and discuss: the postscript to Jacques Ellul’s Politics of God and Politics of Man, titled “a meditation on inutility”.  You may find this…
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November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From mnemonic techniques and the advent of written language to smartphones and “AI” assistants, we have sought technological extension of memory from the beginnings of our existence. But what is memory, truly? What are its operations? And how do technologies extend or hinder them?
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
What are the tactics the dialectician employs in his pursuit of the truth, his attack of a position? How does he gather propositions for the assault? How does he map the terrain of disputation? We will think this through today!
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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