The Phoenix Institute is an educational organization that concerns itself with the question "What is it to be human?" We examine mankind in all its essential components -intellectual, psychological, spiritual- supplementing and extending the explorations which our students have already made during their years of undergraduate and post-graduate study.

Tracing the course of Classical and Judeo-Christian thought, we seek truth by searching for the knowledge of reality and the realization of the good. Today, more than ever, the world needs men and women willing to undertake this kind of adventure. Despite remarkable advances in science, technology, and economics, the world suffers disorder at every level of society because of an absence of order in the lives of individuals. The Phoenix Institute exists to help mankind recover from this disorder. We do not believe that we offer the only way, but we offer one way, a very good way.

The way the world can recover is person by person, community by community, and nation by nation. This is a long process, requiring humility, courage, wisdom, generosity and endurance. Logically, this challenge should begin with a careful consideration of all that is common to humanity and the mutual responsibilities of the state and its citizens, leading to the good that accrues when people weave their lives together in some shared conception of civility, friendship, and happiness. We must, above all, re-appropriate the philosophical and moral coordinates that give order to society and hope to individuals.

The experience of the international students and faculty brought together by the Phoenix Institute since 1987 offers compelling evidence that the human spirit is still invincible and that human beings are still capable of individual and collective greatness. Our summer sessions in the United States and Europe, the extensions of these summer programs on three continents and our international conferences, are designed to communicate our confidence in the human spirit to young men and women who are determined to embody all that makes mankind honorable, just, and true.