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2 - De Consolatione Philosophiae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

By
John Haldane
Edited by
Michael McGhee
Michael McGhee
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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So begins the famous work by Boethius from which I have taken my title: a work which, according to one of its earliest translators, King Alfred, is ‘among the books most necessary for all men to know’. The woman of Boethius’ vision is, of course, Philosophy—‘the nurse in whose house I had been cared for since my youth’.

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Spiritual Life , pp. 49 - 73
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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