Boethius / John Marenbon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marenbon, John.

Series:

Great medieval thinkers.

Great medieval thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boethius, -524.

Boethius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate and free will, and the problem of divine foreknowledge. Marenbon also traces Boethius's influence on the work of such thinkers as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations of Boethius's Works

1 Introduction

2 Life, Intellectual Milieu, and Works

3 Boethius's Project: The Logical Translations and Commentaries

4 The Logical Textbooks and Topical Reasoning: Types of Argument

5 The Opuscula Sacra: Metaphysics, Theology, and Logical Method

6 The Consolation: The Argument of Books I-V.2

7 The Consolation, V.3-6: Divine Prescience, Contingency, Eternity

8 Interpreting the Consolation

9 Boethius's Influence in the Middle Ages

Notes

Bibliography

Index Locorum

A

B

C

D

E

H

I

J

P

T

General Index

F

G

K

L

M

N

O

Q

R

S

U

V.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-47311-8

9786610473113

0-19-803064-9

1-4237-5760-2