By John Marenbon

ISBN-10: 0521694256

ISBN-13: 9780521694254

ISBN-10: 0521872669

ISBN-13: 9780521872669

Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), even though a Christian, labored within the culture of the Neoplatonic colleges, with their powerful curiosity in Aristotelian good judgment and Platonic metaphysics. he's most sensible recognized for his comfort of Philosophy, which he wrote in legal expecting execution. His works additionally contain a protracted sequence of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and a few brief yet densely-argued theological treatises, all of that have been vastly influential on medieval idea. yet Boethius was once greater than a author who handed on very important historical rules to the center a while. The essays right here by way of prime experts, which disguise the entire major points of his writing and its impact, exhibit that he used to be a particular philosopher, whose arguments pay off cautious research and who used his literary skills along side his philosophical skills to provide a fancy view of the world.

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