The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation

by JoelC.Relihan (Author)

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  2006

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  Delivers a reading of the Consolation . This work argues that it is a Christian work dramatizing not the truths of philosophy as a whole, but the limits of pagan philosophy in particular. It argues that Boethius deliberately dramatizes the act of writing about systematic knowledge in a way that calls into question the value of that knowledge.