Back to category: Miscellaneous Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. A Letter to Boethius Andrew Bannor A Letter To Boethius Where do I begin my friend? I have read your work, “The Consolation of Philosophy”, and by my own accord, along with the overwhelming opinion of others I have spoken with, I write to inquire and clarify a point that was made during your conversation in the fifth book of your work. In this book you focus firstly, and I believe all too briefly on the subject of chance; accepting Lady Philosophy’s astute definition of chance, “an event produced by random motion without any casual nexus” page 116, you then allow her to move into her explanation of chance and it’s non-existence. The rest of this final book, and indeed the majority of book V itself, is then concentrated on the argument between man’s free will and God’s supreme foreknowledge, concerning how they interact and co-exist, if indeed that is the case. You both speak in terms of Providence, “…God has set up a plan for the... Posted by: Carmen hershman Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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