[MD] IOT: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

[MarshaV]

At 04:49 AM 1/5/2009, you wrote:
>I saw Melvyn on the heath recently - but he didnt meet my look.
>
>-KO

KO,

Sorry, what is heath?  And what does it mean "he didn't meet my look"?


Mstdhs



>2009/1/5 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
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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?
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> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
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> > p.s.  NEXT WEEK: In Our Time Darwin Special
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