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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...

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