Our Program
The Academy Fellowship emphasizes an open, rigorous, and collaborative approach to learning. The program is designed around the Socratic method: close reading, sustained dialogue, and the willingness to follow an argument wherever it leads.
Core Reading
The curriculum spans the great philosophical traditions of the ancient world.
- Nicomachean Ethics
- The Proverbs of Solomon
- Dao De Jing
- Republic
- The Book of Job
- The Analects
- Ecclesiastes
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Dhammapada
- Zhuangzi
Seminar Structure
Fellows meet one to two times per week in Midtown Manhattan for extended seminars of two to three hours. Between sessions, fellows are expected to complete 10–15 hours of independent reading.
Seminars are small by design to ensure that every voice is heard and every idea genuinely tested. Faculty do not lecture, but guide discussion with questions.