Boethius and the Consolations of Philosophy: To What Extent Can Philosophy Console?

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In this video I examine the extent to which philosophy can console us amidst the tragedies of life, through an exegesis of Boethius's famous work "The Consolations of Philosophy". Boethius lived at the end of the classical world and the beginning of the medieval one. It was thanks to him, and his Latin translations, that what little was retained of Plato and Aristotle was preserved in the middle ages. If anyone had grounds to complain about the injustice of life, it was Boethius. Having devoted himself to a life of service and scholarship he was nonetheless imprisoned and ultimately executed by the Ostrogothic king Theoderic. But, in this work, written in prison, he recounts a series of visions he had of Lady Philosophy who justifies the ways of God to men.

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