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Boethius was a Christian and Neoplatonist philosopher, and also a high functionary in the court of Theoderic, the Ostrogothic king of Italy in the sixth century. He was imprisoned on suspicion of conspiracy (apparently under easy conditions) and wrote this book while in prison. It is a dialogue in prose and verse between Boethius, lamenting his poor turn of fortune, and personified Philosophy, who tries to convince him that there is really no such thing as evil, that wicked men are really powerl
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Started out as 5 stars, with interesting and enlightened philosophical insights on happiness and other topics, drawing on the classical writers. In the middle of Book 3 (of 5) it quickly degraded into religious dogma and flawed reasoning, which the author clearly recognized as well, since he repeatedly went out of his way to praise the perfect reasoning. According to descriptions of the book, this was one of the most widely read books during the middle ages, and an inspirition for the Scholastic
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