[MD] IOT: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

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BBC:  In Our Times podcasts.   (I do love my iPod.)

  In the 6th century AD, a successful and intelligent Roman 
politician called Boethius found himself unjustly accused of treason. 
Trapped in his prison cell, awaiting a brutal execution, he found 
solace in philosophical ideas - about the true nature of reality, 
about injustice and evil and the meaning of living a moral life. His 
thoughts did not save him from death, but his ideas lived on because 
he wrote them into a book. He called it The Consolation of Philosophy.

The Consolation of Philosophy was read widely and a sense of 
consolation is woven into many philosophical ideas, but what for 
Boethius were the consolations of philosophy, what are they more 
generally and should philosophy lead us to consolation or lead us from it?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml



p.s.  NEXT WEEK: In Our Time Darwin Special




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