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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
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This book surprised me in how much I adored it. I have been contemplating its arguments often and will do so for a long time. It’s a testament to Boethius’ time but it is also a timeless treatise that we can all glean wisdom from.
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I am definitely not smart enough for most of this book, but for what I can grasp just fine, I can’t really find myself agreeing with Boethius, at least in how he and Philosophy discuss evil being nothingness and good being the supreme, and particularly how the wretched feel better if they receive punishment rather than escaping. Maybe on a smaller scale, but for some of the most persistent “evil” forces in this world, their ability to escape what any of us may call justice simply empowers them.
That being said, the attention to detail in the translation of the songs and to keep them in meter and rhyme is just superb. That alone, I am rating it so highly.
That being said, the attention to detail in the translation of the songs and to keep them in meter and rhyme is just superb. That alone, I am rating it so highly.
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I feel a sense of weighty confirmation that I was never, in any universe, meant to be a philosophy major (and remain in awe of such beings). Still, this work, albeit tedious and dense, has moments of great beauty in its poetry and prose and a mind-blowing explanation of divine foreknowledge at its conclusion. Thanks, Boethius.
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