Meet Your Philosopher-Guide
Samuel Loncar, Ph.D.
Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. is a Yale-trained philosopher and scholar of religion and science healing the divide between mind and matter. He is a Platonic transhumanist who practices an ancient form of philosophy, which is the root of Western spirituality and science.
Dr. Loncar’s groundbreaking book, Philosophy as Religion and Science: From Plato to Posthumanism, forthcoming with Columbia University Press, proves that the modern categories of science and religion are sibling traditions, both descended from a single origin: ancient philosophy.
Born in Athens, Greece, Dr. Loncar’s ancestors’ diverse origins give him global roots: in Okinawa, Japan, among the Chippewa (or Ojibwe) people, and in Eastern Europe (Poland and Croatia), and motivate his mission to unite the ancient and the modern.
Dr. Loncar is a Fellow at the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study and the Editor-in-Chief of the Marginalia Review of Books, where he directs the Institute for the Meanings of Science. The Institute’s current project, Meanings of Life: The New Biology, is funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and advances the new biological understanding of agency, purpose, and meaning in living entities.
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Becoming Human: Origins made deep philosophical concepts easy to understand and apply to my lived experience. Thank you!Â
-Â Nerissa R.Â
I am a philosopher who teaches at the university, and I have been studying Heidegger for years. Dr. Loncar's course literally transformed my understanding of Sein und Zet. Invaluable.Â
-Â Aliman Sears
Samuel Loncar ...brings historical context and wisdom to the conversation our questions require.
-Â Jon Morgan, Founder & Principle, Sound Fund Advisors
"Samuel Loncar is smart and persuasive and a joy to listen to. . .his erudition is so contagious that it makes you want to drop everything."Â
COSTICA BRADATAN
Philosophy Editor, LA Review of Books
Professor of Humanities, Honors College, Texas Tech University
 ONLINE COURSES
Becoming Human Lyceum
Realize your full humanity with philosophy as a way of life.Â
Learn all the core ideas from the history of philosophy and how to integrate that wisdom with daily philosophical practices to liberate your mind and elevate your life.
That's what Becoming Human Lyceum is all about. Here, you will learn classic concepts in philosophy, why they matter now, and how to apply them to your life through Dr. Loncar's original, groundbreaking interpretations of the philosophical tradition, including thinkers like Plato, Aquinas, Søren Kierkegaard, and Martin Heidegger.Â
The World, the Soul, & the Gods
A rich introduction to the classical philosophical categories: cosmology (the world), psychology (the soul), and theology (the gods). The course provides a scientifically informed and  mythologically sensitive vision of the Life in its individual, earthly, and cosmic dimensionsÂ
Becoming Human: Origins
An atheistic revolution in philosophy, beginning with Socrates and Jesus, remade religion and science, and set the stage for our post-human age. The course shows how the dominant story of reason, science, and religion is a modern myth and must be replaced if we are to make real progress.
How to Find Personal Freedom
Referenced in Ep.2 of Becoming Human Origins, this is a deeper dive into why so many modern people disown their agency and how to start making true choices to reclaim existential freedom. Â
Plato's Allegory of the Cave: Introduction to Epistemology
"Allegory of The Cave" is the most famous story in Western philosophy. This course shows how Plato’s allegory gives us insight into how the world is an illusion, how it is real, and how to know the difference.
PHILOSOPHY IS A HUMAN PRACTICE
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"All philosophy begins in wonder." -Socrates