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| 类型/形式: | Early works to 1800 |
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| 文件类型: | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Boethius; P G Walsh |
| ISBN: | 0198152280 9780198152286 0192838830 9780192838834 |
| OCLC号码: | 39654994 |
| 描述: | lvii, 171 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 内容: | Boethius' Life and Writings -- The Consolation of Philosophy -- The Christianity of Boethius. |
| 丛书名: | Oxford World's classics. |
| 其他题名: | De consolatione philosophiae. |
| 责任: | Boethius ; translated with introduction and explanatory notes by P.G. Walsh. |
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摘要:
Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. whilst awaiting death under torture. He had been condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Jean de Meun, and Dante were inspired by it. In England it was rendered into Old English by Alfred the Great, into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, and later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation.
The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanour of the author, and the 'Menippean' texture of part prose, part verse (Boethius was a considerable poet) have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy and literature ever since. The book should therefore prove to be of value to students and scholars of classics, philosophy, and religion as well as to more general readers.
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