Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. Asked what was presently vexing him, the bard’s troubled Hamlet replies “words, words, words”. Here ...

I will begin this two-part discussion of the roots of humanism with an overview of its manifestation in one particular node of the Western story, in Renaissance Italy. While there were many important ...

The current state and future prospects of the humanities are occasioning considerable anxious comment. Many humanists are sadly resigned to a belief that the humanities have irrevocably ceded pride of ...

In the last post, I discussed how the sense of agency, an integral element of humanism, seems crucial for leading a meaningful life. The secular world many of us inhabit is a continuation of ...