Transcription of The Consolation of Philosophy - Ex-Classics
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The Consolation of Philosophy By Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Translated from the Latin By W. V. Cooper Published by the Ex-Classics Project, 2009. Public Domain -1- BOETHIUS. -2- THE Consolation OF Philosophy . -3- BOETHIUS. CONTENTS. EDITORIAL CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE ..6. BOOK BOOK BOOK III ..28. BOOK IV ..46. BOOK V ..61. Publisher's Note ..72. APPENDIX (See Book II, Prose III) ..73. -4- THE Consolation OF Philosophy . EDITORIAL NOTE. THE incompatibility of the sufferings of good men, the impunity and success of bad men, with the government of the world by a good God, has been a subject of thought among men ever since religion and abstract questions have occupied the thoughts of mankind. The poetical books of the Bible are full of it, particularly, of course the book of Job, which is a dramatic poem entirely devoted to the subject. The New Testament contains much teaching on the same question. Among the Greeks the tragedians and later philosophers delighted in working out its problems.
THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY-5-EDITORIAL NOTE THE incompatibility of the sufferings of good men, the impunity and success of bad men, with the government of the world by a good God, has been a subject of
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