January 22, 2025
Books of Saint Anicius Manlius Severius Boethius solace of philosophyThis work, which he wrote in prison around 524 while awaiting martyrdom, is one of the most influential single works on medieval philosophy and theology. But Boethius also owed much to the pagan philosophies that had preceded him. Thomas Ward wrote a commentary on Boethius’ dialogues in Word on Fire. After the Stoics: The last words of the last Roman philosopher..
Topics discussed include:
- Boethius’s debt to Stoic ethics and how he criticized the Stoic view of happiness
- The influence of Neoplatonist philosophy on Boethius
- Questions about the explanation of deification given by the philosophy of women – is it Platonism rather than Christianity?
- Boethius’s great discussion of how God’s way of knowing differs from our way of knowing
link
thomas ward After the Stoics: The last words of the last Roman philosopher.
https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/after-stoicism?srsltid=AfmBOopBRfuMW6DMx_iUEH9u2gjSswySJAZ__JrdTznAIpZ3Ptj9mDMJ
Boethius’s “Father’s Way” episode
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-boethius-church-father-and-medieval-scholar/
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