On the supreme good ; On the eternity of the world ; On dreams
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Author
Contributions
- Wippel, John F. - Contributor
Publication
1987 - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Ont. Canada, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
22,250 words, Guess
Page Count
89 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2451800M
- ISBN-100888442807
- OCLC Control Number15644632
- OCLC Control Numberonsupremegoodone0000boet
- Library of Congress Control Number87152010
and 2 more
- Goodreads385518
- LibraryThing5875742
Classifications
- DDC189/.4
- LCCB765.B682 E52 1987
Alternate Titles
- On the supreme good.
- On the eternity of the world.
- On dreams.
Description
In the first work Boethius offers a purely philosophical discussion of man's highest good and, in the course of doing this, presents the life of the philosopher as the highest kind of life. In the second treatise, he considers in detail an issue which was much contested by Christian thinkers of his day: Can philosophical reasoning prove that the world began to be? Or does it rather show that the world is eternal, i.e. that it did not begin to be? In the third he offers a highly naturalistic explanation of dreams. Only within carefully defined limits will he acknowledge that dreams can give us any kind of knowledge of future events.
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Series Statement
- Mediaeval sources in translation,
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