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Boethius: The Theological Tractates and the Consolation of Philosophy is unavailable, but you can change that!

During his brief life of forty-four years, Boethius authored and translated numerous important works and treatises on the Christian faith. Considered by Stewart and Rand to be “the last of the Roman philosophers and the first of the scholastic theologians,” an imprisoned Boethius penned The Consolation of Philosophy, his best known work, before being executed in 524 A. D. This volume contains the...

We will now begin a careful consideration of each several point, as far as they can be grasped and understood; for it has been wisely said,a in my opinion, that it is a scholar’s duty to formulate his belief about anything according to its real nature. Speculative Science may be divided into three kindsb: Physics, Mathematics, and Theology. Physics deals with motion and is not abstract or separable (i.e. ἀνυπεξαίρετος); for it is concerned with the forms of bodies together with their constituent
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