Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in Rome around the year 475 C.E. A learned man, he ...

Read widely, but don’t overlook your own inner wisdom. As Dr. Spock said, you know more than you think you do. Every generation is unlike the one before it. We were raised in a different time than our ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

Why? Two reasons: It takes time and it’s not easy. Think about it, pretty much everything you do each day is fast and easy. Life controlled by our use of the internet every minute of every day has ...

County commissioners from 10 eastern Colorado counties have sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis asking him to adhere to his own philosophy in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. The commissioners ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: ...