The Wisdom of Hope in Boethian Times

May 30th, 2025 | 5 min read

Thomas M. Ward, After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher. Word on Fire Academic, 2024. $34.95. 216 pp.

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Rick Kennedy is author of The Winds of Santa Ana: Pilgrim Stories of the California Bight (2022), The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather (2015), and A History of Reasonableness: Testimony and Authority in the Art of Thinking (2004). He is professor of history and environmental studies at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.

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