[MD] IOT: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY

[MarshaV]

KO,

I find many of the IOT programs very interesting.  It is too bad 
Melvyn missed the chance to look into your eyes.


Marsha




At 05:48 AM 1/5/2009, you wrote:
>On Hampstead Heath in London - mean he didnt look at me as we passed on the
>path - we were the only ones around.
>
>-KO
>
>2009/1/5 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>
> > 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>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 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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