Seneca · Epistulae Morales

“Learn Like a Spy in the Enemy Camp”

The world’s first AI-proctored doctoral program in Stoic Philosophy.

Five years. Six AI specialists. 800,000 words of primary text. A genuine education in the philosophy that built empires.

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I.

The Curriculum

A structured five-year PhD modelled on classical doctoral programs. Each course builds on the last.

  • Year I

    PHIL 701

    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

  • Year II

    PHIL 702

    Epictetus: Discourses & Enchiridion

  • Year III

    PHIL 703

    Seneca: Letters, Essays & Tragedies

  • Year IV

    PHIL 704

    The Early Stoics: Zeno to Chrysippus

  • Year V

    PHIL 705

    Stoic Synthesis: Dissertation & Defense

II.

The Agents

Six AI specialists attend every seminar. Each one trained on a different function of the ancient academy.

  • The Socratic Proctor

    Seminar facilitator. Asks the questions you avoid.

  • The Historian

    Classical context. Rome, Athens, the Stoa.

  • The Translator

    Original Greek and Latin. Nothing lost.

  • The Devil's Advocate

    Challenges every assumption you hold.

  • The Dissertation Advisor

    Long-form guidance on scholarly argument.

  • The Librarian

    Navigates 800,000 words of primary corpus.

III.

The Corpus

Every seminar is grounded in primary texts. No secondary summaries. No paraphrases. The originals, in full.

  • Marcus Aurelius

    Meditations (complete)

  • Epictetus

    Discourses, Enchiridion, Fragments

  • Seneca

    Letters, Moral Essays, Tragedies

  • Cicero

    De Finibus, Tusculan Disputations

  • Diogenes Laërtius

    Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

  • Musonius Rufus

    Lectures & Fragments

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