
The Consolation of Philosophy
- Boethius (author)
- Walter John Sedgefield (translator)
While under arrest and awaiting execution by King Theodoric for threatening his position by attempting to reconcile a schism between Rome and Constantinople in 524, Boethius wrote his best know work, The Consolation of Philosophy, in which he argues that despite the seeming injustice of the world, there is, in Platonic fashion, a higher realm and that all else is subordinate to that divine Providence.
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The Cambridge Companion to BoethiusJohn Marenbon
The The Cambridge Companion is structured in large part as an exploration of The Consolation and it’s legacy as Boethius’s seminal work. It situates the work in relation to Boethius’s other thought, earlier thinkers Boethius drew upon, and later medieval thinkers who it inspired.
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