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	Consolation of Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime of treason by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.
		The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the heathen philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.
		Sanderson Beck, The Consolation of Boethius an analysis and commentary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consolation_of_Philosophy (1380 words)

	Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Philosophy's first job—true to the generic aim of a consolatio—is to console, not by offering sympathy, but by showing that Boethius has no good reason to complain: true happiness, she wishes to argue, is not damaged even by the sort of disaster he has experienced.
		Philosophy is therefore able to put forward emphatically two of the most counter-intuitive claims of the Gorgias: that the wicked are happier when they are prevented from their evil and punished for it, than when they carry it out with impunity, and that those who do injustice are unhappier than those who suffer it.
		Philosophy, he might be suggesting, provides arguments and solutions to problems which should be accepted and it teaches a way of living that should be followed, but it falls short of providing a coherent and comprehensive understanding of God and his relation to creatures.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/boethius (7405 words)

	The Consolation of Boethius by Sanderson Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She uses a dialectical method to determine his disease, for the Philosophy of Plato stated that the remedy for the ignorance of not knowing is teaching while the remedy for the double ignorance of thinking that one knows when one does not is therapy.
		Philosophy discusses the various desires of men for riches, gems, beautiful clothes, servants, which are really only good in themselves and do not actually extend their goodness to their possessor.
		Philosophy shows how those who are good are strong because everyone seeks the good, and the ability to attain it is evidence of power while the evil are weak because they have not attained it.
	www.san.beck.org /Boethius.html (2692 words)

	Consolation of Philosophy
		This same attitude is evident in the violence of Philosophy’s condemnation of the muses of poetry as wholly inadequate to rescue the dreamer from his despair.
		Ahd at the conclusion of Book Two, Philosophy returns to the same theme to sing of that divine love which is the governing principle of cosmic harmony and therefore ought to govern the souls of men and women.
		Philosophy suggests that the source of the prisoner’s trouble is within himself and begins to reassure him.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/boethius.htm (2393 words)

	GradeSaver: The Consolation of Philosophy Essay: The Juxtaposition of the Rose
		In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius’s Philosophy contends that men “measure the good in terms of gaiety and enjoyment; they think that the greatest happiness is found in pleasure” (44).
		Philosophy continues that “it is the nature of all bodily pleasure to punish those who enjoy it.
		In "The Consolation of Philosophy", Lady Philosophy’s goal is to lead the narrator “to true happiness” and away from carnal and earthly pleasure (42).
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/consolationphilosophy/essay1.html (2450 words)

	Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
		Then, as though she were beginning for the first time, Philosophy said, "The coming-into-being of all things, and the entire course that changeable things take, derive their causes, their order, and their forms from the unchanging mind of God.
		Philosophy will answer the question by redefining "necessity." Pay close attention; this rather obtuse and high-falutin' argument will form one of the cornerstones in the development of Enlightenment rationality and science of which we are the heirs.
		Philosophy replied, "This is an old enigma about Providence and has occupied your mind for much of your life; no-one, however, has ever really thought about the problem carefully.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/con-phil.html (3831 words)

	Boethius Selections from
		Philosophy was silent for a while; then, regaining my attention by her modest reserve, she said: ‘If I understand the causes of your diseased condition, you are suffering from the absence of your former good fortune.
		Philosophy answers that the only true joy is self-possession in the face of adversity.
		Philosophy, at the request of Boethius, restates in popular form her thesis that all fortune is good.
	www29.homepage.villanova.edu /christopher.haas/boethius.htm (7183 words)

	Amazon.com: The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Boethius,P. G. Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Philosophy carefully explains to the prisoner that that happiness can never be found in such things as fame or power or riches and other things that are confused with the true source of happiness.
		Philosophy, then is the soundness means to indivdual happiness as it is the least dependant upon external sources for its fuel.
		While waiting for his execution, Boethius wrote his "Consolation of Philosophy." The book itself is among the masterpieces of all time, and the only thing as tradgic as Boethius' untimely death is the fact that we were not able to obtain anymore works from this genius with the golden pen.
	www.amazon.com /Consolation-Philosophy-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192838830 (2514 words)

	Boethius
		Consolation of Philosophy was a great favorite throughout the Middle Ages.
		When the printing first began, Consolation of Philosophy was one of the books which was produced for both scholar and layman - before 1500 it had at least 70 reissues.
		The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy, 1973 (ed.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /boethius.htm (972 words)

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		It is his last and most influential work, the Consolation of Philosophy, which has left the most lasting mark on philosophy.
		The Consolation of Philosophy has been published in every European language, and was one of the most popular books of the medieval period.
		The ultimate goal of his philosophy is the discovery of the Good, or for Boethius true happiness.
	www.smcm.edu /users/ecmcallister/biography.htm (754 words)

	AnotherSun -- Reasons to be cheerful pt.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the first problem you encounter with philosophy is philosophers.
		Inevitably he fell out of favour and was banished to Pavia --somewhere at the frayed edge of empire-- to be imprisoned and tortured.
		It is said that he wrote the consolation in two weeks in between spells of being badly interfered with.
	psjk.homestead.com /Cheerfulone.html (595 words)

	Notes and Questions for Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
		The work is cast in the form of a dialog with Philosophy, who explains to him the true nature of happiness, why the wicked appear to prosper while the good suffer, and many other difficulties.
		Philosophy tells Boethius that "this sorrow will also pass." Here is an old story, told many times, now recounted by Abraham Lincoln: "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
		Philosophy argues that for the evil to be successful makes them more unhappy than if they failed at their goals.
	www.virtualsalt.com /lit/boethius.htm (876 words)

	Comments on Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In an excerpt from Book I of The Consolation of Poetry, Philosophy, in the form of a woman carrying books and a scepter, appears to Botheius who, portrayed as a sick man, is surrounded by Muses of poetry.
		This seems to be an example of some of the binarisms prevalent in western critical thought, the division of the emotions (passions) from the rational part of the mind.
		Additionally, the appearance of the garments of the allegorical figure of Philosophy show that "the hands of certain rough men had torn this garment and had snatched such pieces as they could therefrom," indicating possibly that Boethius believes men have ill, or incompletely, used Philosophy.
	core.ecu.edu /engl/kaind/crit/boettext.html (332 words)

	READING GUIDE: BOETHIUS, THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
		The Consolation of Philosophy (CP) consists of verse passages (metra) alternating with passages of prose (prosae).
		Philosophy is a kind of psychiatry ('soul doctoring' - psyche soul, iatros a physician).
		In the neo-Platonic philosophy unity is more basic than being; the cause of unity is the cause of being, degrees of unity are degrees of being.
	teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /medieval/2005/boeth.html (6154 words)

	Consolation of Philosophy
		The Consolation of Philosophy was one of the best known works of the Middle Ages and beyond.
		The story of his rise to fame and fortune, sudden fall, and "redemption" through philosophy provided medieval and Renaissance readers with a tale both moral and entertaining, and one that accorded with (or perhaps provided) one common model of the shape of man's life.
		The philosophy found here can also be found in literature and in common speech from the days of Homer to our own, but seldom more succinctly expressed than here.
	www174.pair.com /mja/boece.html (1242 words)

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		It is difficult to overestimate the place of The Consolation of Philosophy in the self-help canon.
		Having heard the prisoner rail against the injustice of his situation, Philosophy then begins her reasoned arguments on why he should not blame Fortune.
		The Consolation inspired Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas, and was personally rendered into English by King Alfred (9 th century) and by Elizabeth I (16 th century).
	www.butler-bowdon.com /consolphilosophy.htm (665 words)

	Peter Wood on philosophy & war on National Review Online
		These are somber thoughts for a somber season, but the consolations of philosophy don't all have to be Stoic meditations.
		The APA is the scholarly association for academic philosophy in the United States, and a body we might reasonably look to for advice in troubled times.
		Every society, I suppose, remakes philosophy in its own image, and it would be uncharitable to begrudge academic philosophers their chance to market themselves to a broader public.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-wood102401.shtml (935 words)

	Oxford University Press: The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius
		Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, which he protested as manifestly unjust.
		Though a Christian, Boethius details the true end of life as the soul's knowledge of God, and consoles himself with the tenets of Greek philosophy, not with Christian precepts.
		The Consolation of Philosophy dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; it inspired writers as diverse Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante.
	www.us.oup.com /us/catalog/24385/subject/HistoryofPhilosophy/?view=usa&ci=9780192838834 (396 words)

	Amazon.com: The Consolation of Philosophy: Books: Boethius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		The Relihan translation emphasizes the philosophical depth of Boethius' Consolation, while faithfully and artfully reproducing the original beauty of his verse and the sublimity of its meaning.
		Bearing that in mind as I read "The Consolation of Philosophy" (if anyone ever needed consolation, it was an innocent man awaiting his own death; Christians should be able to relate to that idea) made it all the more remarkable.
	www.amazon.com /Consolation-Philosophy-Boethius/dp/0486421635 (1618 words)

	The Consolation of Philosophy - New York Times
		As Oates's nameless young narrator, a gifted philosophy student and nascent fiction writer at Syracuse University in the early 60's, puts it (quoting Parmenides, in part): ''The great question that underlies all philosophical inquiry applied to the mystery of my conception and birth.
		Thayer nor Vernor ever utter the narrator's real name; both adopt invented names for her or else resort, like her father, to the impersonal ''you.'' Both relationships abruptly self-destruct after the narrator is caught prying into the other's possessions, unearthing, in each case, a forbidden secret.
		In the earlier novel the male and female protagonists are kept largely apart by their separate races, and their relationship goes unconsummated; here the bond is intimate and sexual, allowing Oates to explore racial difference in a far more raw and interesting way.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E3D6163AF933A15753C1A9649C8B63 (774 words)

	Golden Age Diary: The Consolation of Philosophy
		Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was an official at the court of the Ostrogothic emperor Theoderic the Great in the early sixth century and wrote the Consolation whilst awaiting execution (by torture) for allegedly conspiring with the rival Byzantine emperor.
		In the book he imagines he is visited by the “Lady Philosophy” and the text consists of their dialogue as he struggles to come to terms with the fate of man and his own impending death.
		Although the book is actually a piece of neo-Platonist philosophy, from an early date it was taken up by Christians and the text subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) altered to make it into a more overtly Christian text.
	www.shekharkapur.com /goldenage/archives/2006/07/the_consolation_of_philosophy.html (481 words)

	Consolation of Philosophy
		Remember that this is not the Consolation of Religion, but the Consolation of Philosophy.
		Beginning in Prose 12, Philosophy takes up the question she posed at the beginning of the work (p.
		Philosophy puts the Greek story to rather different uses here--a good lesson in the "usability" of stories.
	www174.pair.com /mja/boece2.html (757 words)

	Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Consolation of Philosophy has been on my to-read list for a long time, but there's a lot else that's been ahead of it so far.
		I read "Consolation of Philosophy" about 15 years ago as a part of a personal philosophical journey and was quite moved.
		The Consolation should be read by all-- Christianity is more diverse and interesting than people generally realize in these latter days, and that book is worthily demonstrates it.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/38186 (1716 words)

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		The book whose title Alain de Bottom stole after a fashion for his "philosophy for the masses" The Consolations Of Philosophy.
		The original source of the idea of a wheel of fortune (or Fortuna's wheel as Boethius would have it), this book is recommended reading for anyone who appreciates philosophy.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/consolation-of-philosophy-the-boethius (211 words)

	The Consolation of Philosophy
		Comprising a dialogue in alternating prose and verse between Boethius and his spiritual guardian, the book concerns happiness: how to achieve and maintain it amid life's inevitable pain.
		A cornerstone of medieval humanism, the work remains a source of comfort and consolation for contemporary readers.
		Fascinating study of the origin and nature of mathematical thought, including relation of mathematics and science, 20th-century developments, impact of computers, more.
	store.doverpublications.com /0486421635.html (265 words)

	Medieval Philosophy
		Early on, the neoplatonism philosophy of Plotinus seemed to provide the most convenient intellectual support for religious doctrine.
		Although Augustine was significantly influenced by the moral philosophy of Cicero, he generally argued that the Stoics were excessively optimistic in their assessment of human nature.
		In De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy), he maintained that commitment to rational discourse and decision-making is vital to the successful human life, even though it offers little prospect of avoiding the personal disasters fate holds for many of us.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/3b.htm (1886 words)

	Amazon.com: The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics): Books: Ancius Boethius,Victor Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
		I don't read a lot of philosophy texts, but I read this one after my father died and was surprised to find it very meaningful and truly consoling.
		Boethius, in his "Consolation" written in prison shortly before his death, turns to the pre-Christian philosophers and the tradition of Rome and Greece for aid and comfort.
	www.amazon.com /Consolation-Philosophy-Revised-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140447806 (1605 words)

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