Imprisoned and awaiting execution, Boethius dialogues with Lady Philosophy on fortune, happiness, God, and true good.
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Imprisoned and awaiting execution, Boethius dialogues with Lady Philosophy on fortune, happiness, God, and true good.
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Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. whilst awaiting death under torture. He had been condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Jean de...
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References to imprisonment and impending execution; no graphic violence
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Central theology of God, providence, divine foreknowledge, and the soul's good
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Recurring themes of unjust power, fortune, rank, and worldly vanity
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Framed by unjust imprisonment and condemnation awaiting death by torture
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