Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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 ...

To consider humanism now requires understanding how it played out in a system of global finance that institutionalized the extraction of natural resources from other lands, keeping in mind that ...

World Humanist Day is about celebrating the achievements of humanists around the globe. Humanism is a philosophical movement attributed to those who reject religious and supernatural ideologies. A ...

I have not touched a musical instrument with serious performative intent since around the age of 10, when I took my acceptable rendition of “Popeye the Sailor Man” at the local piano recital as a ...

The Dublin-born artist Isabel Nolan is known for her work exploring meaning and uncertainty, taking cosmology, religion and humanism as starting points. She draws on the visual language of the late ...

Humanism may seem to be the most legible explanation of the universe and our actions within it, but is the concept still relevant? As a reminder, "Humanism is a hospitality of the heart and spirit to ...