Boethius, a sixth-century Roman statesman, was in the prime of his life when his political career was brought to a sudden and ignominious end. Running afoul of corrupt politicians, he was falsely ...

If you study philosophy at a British or American university, your education in the history of the subject will likely be modest. Most universities teach Plato and Aristotle, skip about two millennia ...

Major in philosophy and you explore 2,500 years of thought – starting with the ancient Greeks and Romans – and learn to make connections to such fields as law, gender, neuroscience, art and the ...

If you’ve ever suffered from anxiety, or even depression, you might find some relief in the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Wait: It’s probably not what you think, if you think of stoics as people who ...

Matthew Sharpe works at Deakin. He is part of an ARC project on modern engagements with Philosophy as a Way of Life Legend tells that when the Romans defeated the slave revolt led by the gladiator ...

Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...