Meet the Faculty
Seneca
Letters or the Art of Living
From the corridors of Nero's court, Seneca composed letters that have outlasted the empire that condemned him. Drawn from the Epistulae Morales and On the Shortness of Life, this course teaches you to reckon with time, fortune, and the hidden cost of borrowed lives.
12 CHAPTERS | 1 HOUR
DRAWN FROM:
LETTERS TO LUCIOUS | ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE | ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND |
ON THE HAPPY LIFE
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
Confucius
The Way of Humane Order
Confucius did not build a system from abstraction. He taught through conversation, correction, ceremony, and example. Drawn from the Analects, this course studies ren, li, filial duty, righteous leadership, and the quiet discipline of becoming a person others can trust.
12 CHAPTERS | 1 HOUR
DRAWN FROM:
THE ANALECTS
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"
Aristotle
The Science of a Good Life
Aristotle did not believe the good life was a mystery. It was a habit, refined like a craftsman refines a chisel. Drawn from his most famous works, this course teaches the doctrine of the mean, the architecture of virtue, and what it means to flourish — in Greek, eudaimonia.
12 CHAPTERS | 1 HOUR
DRAWN FROM:
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS | METAPHYSICS | POLITICS | ON THE SOUL
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom"
Nietzsche
The Will To Become
Nietzsche did not write systems. He wrote provocations. Drawn from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo, this course confronts the death of received values and the harder question that follows: what now? Not for everyone. Decidedly for some.
12 CHAPTERS | 1 HOUR
DRAWN FROM:
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA | BEYOND GOOD & EVIL | ON THE GENEOLOGY OF MORALS
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
