Dr Martin Black is a teacher of Philosophy and the Classics and the founder of a philosophy school in Melbourne. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy and Classics and Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne prior to studying with the philosopher Stanley Rosen, at Boston University, receiving his PhD in 2009. After lecturing at Boston College and Suffolk University in the US, he returned to Australia and established the Independent School of Philosophy in Melbourne. With his Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Martin will study the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts degree at St John’s College, Annapolis, a college renowned for its communal study of the greatest works of our civilisation. He hopes that this study will broaden and deepen his ability to contribute to the revival of the study of texts that shed the most light on the meaning of our times because they are most illuminating about our permanent human nature.