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Boethius - The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (Paperback, New Ed)
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Boethius - The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English
translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen
Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by
a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence.
Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on
mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and
on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing
the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the
Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be
seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman
imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476.
Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in
the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture
and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find
on Plato and Aristotle. Boethius has been called `last of the
Romans, first of the scholastics'. This book is the first major
study in English of a writer who was of critical importance in the
history of thought.
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