If you see this, you can help me. The Lyceum Institute is hosting its first in-person conference this September. We have great speakers lined up, great people attending, great conversations anticipated. Our topic is Human Formation in the Digital Age. Important! But... 1/

I know, from talking to people in the industry (including a long chat with an engineer at one of the top frontier labs last week) that these are questions of concern to some in these companies— The @LyceumInstitute has developed a framework to address the difficulty. 1/

We’re over $25,000. Add $5. Add $25, if you can. donate.infinitegiving.com/ly…

This conference is not just for academics, but for any seriously-minded person concerned, amidst the ever-increasing technological threats to our well-being, for the future of humanity. Learn more: lyceum.institute/hfda/

What does it take to build something truly new in this world of ours? In a word: people. You could say “courage”, “luck”, “dedication”, “time”, “patience”, “vision”, “resources”, “the right tools”, and “faith” and you would not be wrong. But instruments are always moved by someone’s hands, and, unless they beat with the human heart, virtues are only a mere abstraction. People. Nothing worthwhile in this world—great or small—is accomplished without the effort of many. The individual succeeds only because he has a society around him, only because he succeeds with and for the sake of others. All the greatest accomplishments of my own earthly life are due to the people I have been fortunate enough to have around me. Parents, siblings, professors, friends, colleagues, students—there is nothing I have done or can do that I do not owe to them. I am now in the sixth year of building the Lyceum Institute. We now have, myself included, twelve faculty and over 200 members. Again, I find myself surrounded by great people—people who love learning, who thirst for wisdom and understanding, who care deeply for the truth. Our members bring an earnest desire to know into every class session. But our faculty bring that knowledge to life. I am excited to introduce them to you over the next three months—with interviews and excerpts—and I hope you will see in them the same brilliance and dedication that I get to witness daily. I also hope it is in your power to support them financially. Our people have virtue—but we need resources. Even if you can give only a little, even if you can only share this post, it means a great deal to me—you, too, are among the people that the Lyceum Institute needs.

One must follow Fr. Cajetan’s hand motions to arrive at the proper destinations of understanding (as a good Dominican, he provides us phantasms).