Boethius
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Theology, Theologians
- Curriculum: Italian History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
Article abstract: Combining Greek philosophy and his Christian Roman heritage, Boethius articulated a solution to the contradiction between divine omniscience and the freedom of human will that laid the foundation for medieval thought.
Early Life
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born into the patrician Roman family of the Anicii, whose members figure prominently in Roman history as far back as the Third Macedonian War in the second century b.c.e. The Manlius and Severinus families also could boast of eminent forebears. Boethius’s own father held...
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