The Roman philosopher Boethius (c. 480-524) is best known for the Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most frequently cited texts in medieval literature. In the Consolation, an unnamed Boethius sits in prison awaiting execution when his muse Philosophy appears to him. Her offer to teach him who he truly is and to lead him to his heavenly home becomes a debate about how to come to terms with evil, freedom, and providence. The conventional reading of the Consolation is that it is a defense of pagan philosophy; nevertheless, many readers who accept this basic argument find that the ending is ambiguous and that Philosophy has not, finally, given the prisoner the comfort she had promised.
In The Prisoner's Philosophy, Joel C. Relihan delivers a genuinely new reading of the Consolation. He argues that it is a Christian work dramatizing not the truths of philosophy as a whole, but the limits of pagan philosophy in particular. He views it as one of a number of literary experiments of late antiquity, taking its place alongside Augustine's Confessions and Soliloquies as a spiritual meditation, as an attempt by Boethius to speak objectively about the life of the mind and its relation to God.
Relihan discerns three fundamental stories intertwined in the Consolation: an ironic retelling of Plato's Crito, an adaptation of Lucian's Jupiter Confutatus, and a sober reduction of Job to a quiet dialogue in which the wounded innocent ultimately learns wisdom in silence. Relihan's claim that Boethius's text was written as a Menippean satire does not rest merely on identifying a mixture of disparate literary influences on the text, or on the combination of verse and prose or of fantasy and morality. More important, Relihan argues, Boethius deliberately dramatizes the act of writing about systematic knowledge in a way that calls into question the value of that knowledge. Philosophy's attempt to lead an exile to God's heaven is rejected; the exile comes to accept the value of the phenomenal world, and theology replaces philosophy to explain the place of human beings in the order of the world. Boethius Christianizes the genre of Menippean satire, and his Consolation is a work about humility and prayer.
Автор: Sweeney Название: Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Anselm, Abelard, and Alan of Lille ISBN: 1403969728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403969729 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
Автор: Elizabeth Elliott Название: Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures ISBN: 1409424189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409424185 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius`s Consolation of Philosophy and the literary construction of aristocratic identity. Elliott presents new interpretations of Machaut`s Confort d`ami, Remede de Fortune and Fonteinne amoureuse, Froissart`s Prison amoureuse.
Автор: Antonio Donato Название: Boethius` Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity ISBN: 1474228577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474228572 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An exploration of Boethius` social, political background, his notion of philosophy and its sources, and his understanding of the relationship between Christianity and classical culture.
Автор: H.R. James Название: The Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius ISBN: 1536148504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536148503 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 89750.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The book called The Consolation of Philosophy was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholars familiar companion. Few books have exercised a wider influence in their time. It has been translated into every European tongue, and into English nearly a dozen times, from King Alfreds paraphrase to the translations of Lord Preston, Causton, Ridpath, and Duncan, in the eighteenth century.
Автор: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Название: Consolation of philosophy ISBN: 0199540543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199540549 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul`s knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverseas Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante were inspired by it. In England it was rendered in to Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, and later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanour of the author, and the`Menippean` texture of part prose, part verse have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy and literature ever since.
Автор: Boethius Название: Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-3 ISBN: 1472557891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472557896 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Boethius (c 480-c. 525) wrote his highly influential second commentary on Aristotle`s On Interpretation in Latin, but using the style of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle. This title reveals to us how On Interpretation was understood not only by himself, but also by some of the best Greek interpreters, especially Alexander and Porphyry.
Автор: Boethius Название: Boethius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 4-6 ISBN: 1472557905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472557902 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Boethius (c 480-c 525) was a Christian philosopher and author of many translations and works of philosophy. "On Interpretation" is the second part of the "Organon", as Aristotle`s collected works on logic are known; it deals comprehensively with the relationship between logic and language. This title presents a translation of this work.
Автор: David L. Blank, Norman Kretzmann Название: Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 with Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 ISBN: 1780938616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780938615 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Chapter 9 of Aristotle`s "On Interpretation" deals with determinism, and here the two influential commentaries of Ammonius and Boethius have been published together. It was once argued that Boethius was influenced by Ammonius, and this work aims to show that this was clearly not the case.
Автор: Barrett Название: Boethius ISBN: 1107415764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107415768 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Originally published in 1940, this book contains a succinct introduction to Boethius, the influential medieval philosopher who was writing during the final days of the Western Roman Empire. Barrett keeps the general reader in mind as she explains Boethius` philosophy and his role in keeping Greek thinking available to his fellow Romans.
Автор: Antonio Donato Название: Boethius` Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity ISBN: 1780934629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780934624 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An exploration of Boethius` social, political background, his notion of philosophy and its sources, and his understanding of the relationship between Christianity and classical culture.
Автор: Ralph M. McInerny Название: Boethius and Aquinas ISBN: 0813207096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813207094 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In this study of the relationship between Boethius and Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny dispels the notion that Aquinas misunderstood the early philosopher and argues instead that he learned from Boethius, assimilated his ideas, and proved to be a reliable interpreter of his thought. McInerny makes his point that ""Boethius taught what Thomassays he taught"" through a careful analysis of Aquinas's commentary on the De trinitate and De hebdomadibus of Boethius.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:RALPh McineRny was Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies in the department of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He cofounded Crisis magazine and was author of several books published by CUA Press, namely, the bestselling Ethica Thomistica, The Question of Christian Ethics, Aquinas on Human Action, and Praeambula Fidei.PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL EDITION:""McInerny's point is that it is Boethius who has been misunderstood, and not by Thomas. The case is well argued. . . . One must praise the method of the study: the arguments come from the texts of Boethius and Thomas, not the other way around, and the Latin is there to consult. . . . McInerny's study builds to a strong and interesting conclusion.""--Journal of the History of Philosophy""Some of the leading historians of medieval philosophy have tended either to neglect Boethius’s influence or to condemn his 'logicism' as an unfortunate element in the development of philosophy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. McInerny aims at correcting this bias. . . . This book is an important contribution to the history of medievalphilosophy.""--Speculum
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