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This accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius offers a survey of the philosopher's life and work, going on to explicate his theological method. It devotes separate chapters to his various arguments and traces his influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marenbon, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Great medieval thinkers.
Subjects:
Boethius, > -524.
Boethius, > -524
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Medieval.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Life, intellectual milieu, and works
  • Boethius's project: the logical translations and commentaries
  • The logical textbooks and topical reasoning: types of argument
  • The Opuscula Sacra: metaphysics, theology, and logical method
  • The Consolation: the argument of books I-V.2
  • The Consolation, V.3-6: divine prescience, contingency, eternity
  • Interpreting the Consolation
  • Boethius's influence in the Middle Ages.