Rest and Action

To make a rare foray into popular culture, there is a genre of music, particular prevalent on YouTube, called "lo-fi hip hop". The significance of the term "lo-fi" is itself an interesting case study in the stipulated and conventional meaning of language. But, leaving that history to the side, we may say that today this …

Seminar: Thomistic Psychology – Action Theory

Beginning in the Fall of 2019, the Continuum Philosophical Insight Lyceum began a project of “Retrieving Thomistic Psychology” with an eight-week seminar that laid the foundations of an understanding that avoids the pitfalls of modern psychology.  Now, in the Winter of 2020, a following “Thomistic Psychology - Action Theory” seminar will investigate the various operations …

Seminar: 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 …

Lyceum Testimonials

The following were solicited but freely given testimonials from three Lyceum members: The Lyceum is a one of the hidden nooks of the net that has the potential to start a revolution--one that may never be tweeted. It is a space outside of academia, outside of a system that is ambiguous in its purposes and …