You won’t get much from the Nicomachean Ethics if you try to read it over a weekend. Like most philosophical texts, Aristotle ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death.

In The Consolation of Philosophy, he summarized what the lady had taught him about how to practice the good life as: “Withstand vice, practice virtue, lift up your souls to right hopes ...

During his time in prison, he wrote a philosophical volume about the nature of what is true good—“On the Consolation of Philosophy”—that is studied even today. Boethius, who was executed in 524, is ...