One of the first characters one meets when taking a philosophy class or simply googling “philosophy” is Socrates. At…
In the predawn lightthe birds take flight,taking with themthe silence of the…
I asked myself ‘Who am I?’ This is what came to me.Then every moment of my lifeFlashed before…
As I was sitting idly in church the other day, half listening to the sermon, I noticed a kneeler pushed under…
For the past month and a half I have been “sheltering in place,” avoiding human contact as best one can…
In the fifth century a public official named Boethius wrote a small text called “The Consolation of Philosophy.” He had been an…