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Why read Boethius today?
Written while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy poses questions about human reason that remain urgent today.
By John Marenbon
"We know that, to Boethius and his envisaged contemporary readers, pagan philosophy was still a reality and, although all Christians, they were also self-consciously guardians of the ancient, pre-Christian tradition of learning, law and civility."
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