professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota. He is the director of The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life.

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 ...

Humans naturally raise fundamental questions about life and the world. Philosophy offers us conceptual tools to ... religious, historical background), thereby promoting intellectual curiosity, fair ...