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

Boethius, a Roman philosopher facing imminent death, penned The Consolation of Philosophy during his imprisonment amidst Roman decline and Christian zeal. In this seminal work, he dialogues with ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy ... His thoughts did not save him from death, but his ideas lived on because he wrote them into a book. He called it The Consolation ...