The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 189 – St. Boethius, Stoicism and Neoplatonism

Jan 22, 2025

St. Anicius Manlius Severius Boethius’s ebook The Comfort
of Philosophy, which he wrote in jail whereas awaiting
martyrdom across the 12 months 524, is without doubt one of the single most
influential works for medieval philosophy and theology. However
Boethius additionally owed a lot to the pagan philosophy that got here earlier than
him.  Thomas Ward has simply written a commentary on Boethius’s
dialogue for Phrase on Hearth, entitled After Stoicism: Final Phrases
of the Final Roman Thinker.

Subjects mentioned embody:

• Boethius’s debt to Stoic ethics and the way he critiques the Stoic
  view of happiness
• The affect of neo-Platonist philosophy on Boethius
• Questions in regards to the account of deification given by Girl
  Philosophy – is it extra Platonist than Christian?
• Boethius’s good arguments about how God’s method of realizing
  differs from ours

Hyperlinks

Thomas Ward, After Stoicism: Final Phrases of the Final Roman
Thinker
https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/merchandise/after-stoicism?srsltid=AfmBOopBRfuMW6DMx_iUEH9u2gjSswySJAZ__JrdTznAIpZ3Ptj9mDMJ

Means of the Fathers episode on Boethius
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-boethius-church-father-and-medieval-scholar/

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