Rooms for discovery

Several traditions within Greek and Roman philosophy. Aristotle’s ethics and the Stoicism of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius ask related questions but give distinct accounts of a good life.

This collection brings together different periods and disciplines, including transcendentalist writing and humanistic psychology.

Literary and devotional voices exploring connection, faith, and meaning. Their traditions and beliefs differ; each author’s context matters.

This broad geographic section currently includes Okakura’s writing on tea and aesthetics in its Japanese setting.

Whitman and Dickinson open very different imaginative worlds.

Keats was an English Romantic poet. His poems and letters explore imagination, beauty, uncertainty, and mortality.

Rilke’s letters and poems explore inward life, artistic attention, and change. The section brings together writing in German.