The Consoled Prisoner
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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A Roman statesman who translated Aristotle’s logic into Latin and, while awaiting execution, wrote a dialogue in which Lady Philosophy consoles him.
Key work: The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524)
“Why, then, ye children of mortality, seek ye from without that happiness whose seat is only within us?”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Fortune’s wheel turns; what it gives, it may take back.
The true goods are the ones no turn of fortune can remove.
God sees all of time as one eternal present.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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