The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great work that can be called Classical.

Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime of treason by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery. It was from this experience he was inspired to write a philosophical book from prison reflecting on how a lord's favor could change so quickly and why friends would turn against him. It has been described as “by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.”

The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the heathen philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues (as was Boethius himself)

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:22) Chapter 02

(00:12:21) Chapter 03

(00:15:15) Chapter 04

(00:19:24) Chapter 05

(00:35:48) Chapter 06

(00:42:15) Chapter 07

(00:48:09) Chapter 08

(00:49:33) Chapter 09

(00:55:52) Chapter 10

(01:01:08) Chapter 11

(01:06:50) Chapter 12

(01:15:16) Chapter 13

(01:26:52) Chapter 14

(01:33:44) Chapter 15

(01:40:54) Chapter 16

(01:44:35) Chapter 17

(01:47:19) Chapter 18

(01:56:40) Chapter 19

(02:02:02) Chapter 20

(02:06:31) Chapter 21

(02:10:19) Chapter 22

(02:13:35) Chapter 23

(02:16:03) Chapter 24

(02:21:09) Chapter 25

(02:33:18) Chapter 26

(02:47:03) Chapter 27

(02:57:01) Chapter 28

(03:09:40) Chapter 29

(03:15:34) Chapter 30

(03:26:25) Chapter 31

(03:34:56) Chapter 32

(03:49:00) Chapter 33

(03:53:06) Chapter 34

(04:14:11) Chapter 35

(04:19:33) Chapter 36

(04:26:56) Chapter 37

(04:30:09) Chapter 38

(04:41:15) Chapter 39

(04:52:05) Chapter 40

(04:58:26) Chapter 41

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